The Minds I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by H

ISBN: 0553345842

Author: Hofstadter, Douglas

Condition: new

Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Minds 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 Minds I opens the mind to the Black Box of fantasy, to the windfalls of reflection, to new dimensions of exciting possibilities.