GODEL, ESCHER, BACH: An Eternal Golden Braid
Explores the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems and how the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow from the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge from a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Illus.
Format: Paperbound
Pages: 777
Publisher: Basic
ISBN: 9780465026562
Item #: 933470X