Book Description
Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
Author : Douglas R Hofstadter
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0786723866
Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0465030785
Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.
Author : Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0465018475
Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situations, and giving rise to great acts of imagination.
Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Analogy
ISBN : 9780140258356
Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception is investigated through the exploration of playful anagrams, number puzzles, word play and fanciful alphabetical styles, and the result is a survey of cognitive processes. This text presents the results.
Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher :
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1936
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher : Penguin Group(CA)
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art and music
ISBN : 9780140289206
'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.
Author : John Henry Holland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199662541
In this very short introduction, John Holland presents an introduction to the science of complexity. Using examples from biology and economics, he shows how complexity science models the behaviour of complex systems.
Author : Melanie Mitchell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0374715238
Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in this sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals AI’s turbulent history and the recent spate of apparent successes, grand hopes, and emerging fears surrounding it. In Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell turns to the most urgent questions concerning AI today: How intelligent—really—are the best AI programs? How do they work? What can they actually do, and when do they fail? How humanlike do we expect them to become, and how soon do we need to worry about them surpassing us? Along the way, she introduces the dominant models of modern AI and machine learning, describing cutting-edge AI programs, their human inventors, and the historical lines of thought underpinning recent achievements. She meets with fellow experts such as Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the modern classic Gödel, Escher, Bach, who explains why he is “terrified” about the future of AI. She explores the profound disconnect between the hype and the actual achievements in AI, providing a clear sense of what the field has accomplished and how much further it has to go. Interweaving stories about the science of AI and the people behind it, Artificial Intelligence brims with clear-sighted, captivating, and accessible accounts of the most interesting and provocative modern work in the field, flavored with Mitchell’s humor and personal observations. This frank, lively book is an indispensable guide to understanding today’s AI, its quest for “human-level” intelligence, and its impact on the future for us all.
Author : Gary Zukav
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0061926388
“The most exciting intellectual adventure I've been on since reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Gary Zukav’s timeless, humorous, New York Times bestselling masterpiece, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, is arguably the most widely acclaimed introduction to quantum physics ever written. Scientific American raves: “Zukav is such a skilled expositor, with such an amiable style, that it is hard to imagine a layman who would not find his book enjoyable and informative.” Accessible, edifying, and endlessly entertaining, The Dancing Wu Li Masters is back in a beautiful new edition—and the doors to the fascinating, dazzling, remarkable world of quantum physics are opened to all once again, no previous mathematical or technical expertise required.
Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher :
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Amusements
ISBN : 9780670806874