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Godel, Escher, Bach
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis CarrollDouglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or …
Konsten att tänka klart
Människan har en unik superkraft: förnuftet. Hon är förmögen att både förstå, förklara och förändra världen. Men när tankelättja breder ut sig tenderar hon att halka sig fram till …
Konsten att tänka klart
Människan har en unik superkraft: förnuftet. Hon är förmögen att både förstå, förklara och förändra världen. Men när tankelättja breder ut sig tenderar hon att halka sig fram till …
I Am a Strange Loop
One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of …
The Mind's I
With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of …
Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film the Imitation Game - Updated Edition
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight …
Surfaces and Essences
Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend …
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy in addition, psychologists, …
Gödel's Proof
An accessible explanation of Kurt Gödel's groundbreaking work in mathematical logic In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of …
Strange Beauty
Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, the brilliant, irascible man who …
To Light the Flame of Reason
To Light the Flame of Reason is all about the art of clear thinking, an art that is needed now more than ever in the world we now live in. Written for anyone who wants to navigate …
That Mad Ache
That Mad Ache , set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960's, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself …