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The Mind's I

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett

  • 501 pages · about 8 hours
  • First published 1981
  • 23 editions
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1 About this book

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 through the writings of some of the twentieth century's most renowned thinkers.

Good for readers who want: philosophy and a long read.

  • Self
  • Addresses, essays
  • Philosophy
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Popular psychology
  • Conscience
  • Consciousness

2 About Douglas R. Hofstadter

Born 1945

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born 15 February 1945) is an American cognitive scientist and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, ambigrams, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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