| Description |
23, vi-xxi, 777 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 746-756) and index. |
| Contents |
GEB:A musico-logical offering -- The mu-puzzle -- Meaning and form in mathematics -- Figure and ground -- Consistency, completeness, and geometry -- Recursive structures and processes -- The location of meaning -- The propositional calculus -- Typographical number theory -- Mumon and Godel -- EGB: Levels of description and computer systems -- Brains and thoughts -- Minds and thoughts -- Bloop and floop and gloop -- On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems -- Jumping out of the system -- Self-ref and self-rep -- Church, turing, tarski, and others -- Artificial intelligence: retrospects -- Artificial intelligence: prospects -- Strange loops, or tangled hierarchies. |
| Summary |
A scientist and mathematician explores the mystery and complexity of human thought processes from an interdisciplinary point of view. |
| Subject |
Metamathematics.
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Symmetry.
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Artificial intelligence.
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Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
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Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.
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Gödel, Kurt.
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| ISBN |
9780465026562 (pbk.) |
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0465026567 (pbk.) |
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