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From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet
endearing and greatly entertaining
"--Dan Millman
She wonders: I'm almost fifty years old
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Anniversary) From bestselling author of TheWinner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system