- Self (Philosophy), Literary collections, Zelf, Consciousness
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.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Character-led, spare, cool and contemplative.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 501
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd, Lectorum Pubns Inc (J), Klett-Cotta
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, Dutch, German
- ISBN
- 9780140062533
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 7 have read it and 74 want to.
“The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to.”
Douglas Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book *Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid* won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science. His 2007 book *I Am a Strange Loop* won the *Los Angeles Times* Book Prize for Science and Technology.—*Wikipedia* 2021-03-03
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Mythologies 195377% alikeBoth cool, character-led, spare.
Immortality 199271% alikeBoth character-led, contemplative, cool.
Finite and infinite games 198671% alikeBoth spare, character-led, contemplative.
The Sublime Object of Ideology 200870% alikeBoth spare, character-led, cool.
How to Do Nothing 201970% alikeBoth character-led, spare, contemplative.
The art of travel 200269% alikeBoth character-led, spare, contemplative.
Funny Weather 202065% alikeBoth spare, character-led, cool.
Both spare, cool, contemporary.- Tranquilizer 202566% alikeMusic · Both character-led, cool, contemplative.
- i/o 202366% alikeMusic · Both character-led, spare, contemporary.