The Mind’s I
Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
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- Jan 17, 2001
- Page Count
- 512 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780465030910
“A tour de force of thinking around human and artificial intelligence.” –Harvard Gazette
With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind’s I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century’s most renowned thinkers.
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“A welcome sign of change. Despite the prevailing mode of objectivity in our society and culture, we have to think about those old philosophic ideas of mind, consciousness and conscious subject.”New York Times
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“A tour de force of thinking around human and artificial intelligence, assembled at the beginning of the “AI winter” of the 1980s when interest and funding in the technology temporarily waned.”Harvard Gazette
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“A set of essays, fairy stories and brain-teasers by 19 different authors, chosen by Hofstadter and Dennett because they illuminate in one way or another the problems of self-reference, personal identity, consciousness, and the relations between language, mind and brain. The editors have, as they put it, ‘arranged and composed’ the pieces, and they have provided for each an engaging ‘reflection’ or commentary.”London Review of Books
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“A wonderful book.”Jeremy Trevelyan Burman, University of Groningen
