The Mind's I
Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul
$82.74
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
17 January 2001
Summary
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 literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465030910 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0465030912 |
| Author: | Daniel Dennett, Douglas Hofstadter |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 17 January 2001 |
| Weight: | 553g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 36mm |
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Critics Review
“A set of essays, fairy stories and brain-teasers by 19 different authors, chosen by Hofstadter and Dennett because they illuminate in one way or another the problems of self-reference, personal identity, consciousness, and the relations between language, mind and brain. The editors have, as they put it, ‘arranged and composed’ the pieces, and they have provided for each an engaging ‘reflection’ or commentary.”–London Review of Books“A welcome sign of change. Despite the prevailing mode of objectivity in our society and culture, we have to think about those old philosophic ideas of mind, consciousness and conscious subject.”–New York Times“A wonderful book.”–Jeremy Trevelyan Burman, University of Groningen“A tour de force of thinking around human and artificial intelligence, assembled at the beginning of the “AI winter” of the 1980s when interest and funding in the technology temporarily waned.“–Harvard Gazette
About The Author
Daniel Dennett
Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. His previous books are the Pulitzer Prizewinning Godel, Escher, Bach Metamagical Themas, The Mind’s I, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton Beau de Marot, and Eugene Onegin. Daniel C. Dennett is Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the centre for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University.
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