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Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid 
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 | An extraordinary book. What do a painter, a musician and a mathematician have in common.
Philosophers are trying to find answers to simple questions like soul, God and similar subjects for centruies. Now another concept hits the headlines in the world of philosophy. Mind and Intelligence. Hofstadter is using the works of Gödel, Escher, Bach and a few other artists and scientists to introduce you to some basic ideas. Then comes the real stuff. What is mind? What is intelligence? ... and What are the limitations of Artificial Intelligence.
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Metamagical Themas:Questing for Essence of Mind and Pattern 
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 | This book is a collection of essays Hofstadter had written for "Metamagical Themas" column in Scientific American. The book also includes some additional essays previously not published or published in a different publication.
On general the essays are of good quality, some are really nice and not so nice ones can be skipped without effecting the integrity of the book. In this book, Hofstadter is going over similar ideas that he had discussed in Gödel, Escher, Bach. If you have read GEB, this book is no match. But it makes a good reading. Interesting items ile logic games, word plays, paradoxes, Rubik's Cube, Gödel's Theorem and many others are discussed in the articles. |
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The Mind's I
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 | Essays about mind, soul, self, intelligence and computers. You will find Borges, Lem and Turing inside this book. In fact this is a meta-book, a collection of incredibly clever articles from many books.
Alan Turing's classical work "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" is included. A few Stanislaw Lem tales are taken from "Cyberiad" and "The reviews of non-existent books". Parts of "Gödel Esher Bach" are also included. And all other essays are very carefully selected. In fact this book is the best collection of interesting writings. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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