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The mind's I, fantasies and reflections on self and soul, composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-482) and index

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1190L, Lexile

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The mind's I

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composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett

fantasies and reflections on self and soul

Essays from some of the 20th century's greatest thinkers explore topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolution, science fiction, philosophy, reductionism, and consciousness, presenting a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul. Illustrations

Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- On having no head / D.E. Harding -- Rediscovering the mind / Harold J. Morowitz -- Computing machinery and intelligence / A.M. Turing -- The Turing test : a coffeehouse conversation / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- The princess Ineffabelle / Stanislaw Lem -- The soul of Martha, a beast / Terrel Miedaner -- The soul of the Mark III beast / Terrel Miedaner -- Spirit / Allen Wheelis -- Selfish genes and selfish memes / Richard Dawkins -- Prelude ... ant fugue / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- The story of a brain / Arnold Zuboff -- Where am I? / Daniel C. Dennett -- Where was I? / David Hawley Sanford -- Beyond rejection / Justin Lieber -- Software / Rudy Rucker -- The riddle of the universe and its solution / Christopher Cherniak -- The seventh Sally, or how Trurl's own perfection led to no good / Stanislaw Lem -- Non serviam / Stanislaw Lem -- Is God a Taoist? / Raymond M. Smullyan -- The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- Minds, brains, and programs / John R. Searle -- An unfortunate dualist / Raymond M. Smullyan -- What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel -- An epistemological nightmare / Raymond M. Smullyan -- A conversation with Einstein's brain / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- Fiction / Robert Nozick -- Further reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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