A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's
book is concerned directly with the nature of maps or links between formal systems. However
according to Hofstadter the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the
system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell if
consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons then so too will computers
attain human intelligence. Gödel Escher Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas
at the heart of cognitive science: meaning reduction recursion and much more.
