Douglas Hofstadter

Books:

• Gödel, Escher Bach:
  • Introduction: 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 Gödel
  • Levels of Description, and Computer Systems
  • Brains and Thoughts
  • Minds and Thoughts
  • BlooP and FlooP and GlooP
  • On Formally Undecideable 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
• I am a Strange Loop
  • An Affable Locking of Horns
  • On Souls and Their Sizes
  • This Teetering Bulb of Dread and Dream
  • The Causal Potency of Patterns
  • Loops, Goals, and Loopholes
  • On Video Feedback
  • Of Selves and Symbols
  • The Epi Phenomenon
  • Embarking on a Strange-Loop Safari
  • Pattern and Provability
  • Godel’s Quintessential Strange Loop
  • How Analogy Makes Meaning
  • On Downward Causality
  • The Elusive Apple of My I
  • Strangeness in the I of the Beholder
  • Entwinement
  • Grappling with the Deepest Mystery
  • How We Live in Each Other
  • The Blurry Glow of Human Identity
  • Consciousness = Thinking
  • A Courteous Crossing of Words
  • A Brief Brush with Cartesian Egos
  • A Tango with Zombies and Dualism
  • Killing a Couple of Sacred Cows
  • On Magnanimity and Friendship
  • The Quandary