The Mind's I - Brossura

Hofstadter, Douglas R.; Dennett, Daniel C.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553345842 ISBN 13: 9780553345841

Casa editrice: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1985

Riassunto

Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The  Mind's I is a searching, probing nook--a  cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into  the problem of self and self-consciousness as  anything written in our time. From verbalizing  chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving  machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like  fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike  fiction of Lem and Princess Ineffable, her circuits  glowing read and gold, The Mind's I   opens the mind to the Black Box of fantasy, to the  windfalls of reflection, to new dimensions of  exciting possibilities.

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"Ever  since David Hume declared in the 18th century that  the Self is only a heap of perceptions, the poor  Ego has been in a shaky conditions indeed...Mind and  consciousness becomes dispensable items in our  accounts of reality, ghosts in the bodily  machine...Yet there are indications here and there that the  tide may be tuming...and the appearance of  The Mind's I, edited by Douglas R.  Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, seems a welcome sign  of change."--William Barrett, The  New York Times Book Review

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Book by Hofstadter Douglas Dennett Daniel C

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• Editore: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0553345842
• ISBN 13: 9780553345841
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile