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In a single big book entitled Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Hofstadter attempts, with both playful creativity and rigour, to effect a rapprochement between the ‘artificial microworlds’ of the computer and the perceptual—conceptual universe of the brain/mind. His approach is by way of formal-systems theory. It involves a polymathic synthesis of ideas from many disciplines and is preoccupied with meaning.
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Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (New York: Basic Books, 1979), pp. 49, 50.
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Johnson, M.L. (1988). Isomorphism, Decipherment, Symbol. In: Mind, Language, Machine. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19404-9_31
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