Godel Escher Bach Book Review. This time godel, escher, bach: How do i describe this book?
Hofstadter has a fundamental disagreement with mainstream research on how ai programs should operate. An eternal golden braid free online. Marianne freiberger is editor of plus. Escher and bach are among my favorite artists and musicians (respectively), and i've spend many hours pondering godel's incompleteness theorems.
Gödel, escher, bach nevertheless proved both a critical and popular success.
Recently i began to write a review of hofstadter's godel, escher, bach, until i realized that the book defied summary more than all the other books i had previously said defied summary. thus, i gave up on reviewing the book after not too long. Ok, that's probably because i wasn't smart enough or hardworking enough to understand the book, but understood zilch from it when i tried to read it 15 years ago. In his show the eternal golden braid: Douglas hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of `maps` or links between formal systems.
