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