Gödel, Escher, Bach. Eternal Golden Weave

Douglas Hofstadter ponders one of the greatest mysteries of modern science: how human thought tries to understand itself. The book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" directly concerns the nature of "maps", or connections between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system, fundamental to all mental activity, surpasses the system that supports it. If life can be born from the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can arise from the formal system of neuron firing, then computers will also reach the level of human intelligence. The outstanding American scientist D. Hofstadter invites readers to the world of the human spirit and "thinking" machines. This journey is closely connected with classical paradoxes, with the revolutionary discoveries of mathematics by Kurt Gödel, as well as with the possibilities of language, mathematical systems, computer programs and the objective world to prove themselves in infinite reflections.