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Gödel, Escher, Bach, a Rare card
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, is a book about the intellectual themes common to the lives and the works of the logician Kurt Gödel, the artist M. C. Escher, and the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and shows the thematic connections among mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Through short stories, illustrations, and analyses, the book explains how systems acquire meaningful context from the "meaningless" elements that compose a system, self-reference and formal rules, isomorphism, the meaning of communication, how knowledge can be represented and stored, the methods and limitations of symbolic representation, and the notion of "meaning".
- As a cognitive scientist, Hofstadter said that Gödel, Escher, Bach is not about the relationships of mathematics, art, and music, but about how cognition emerges from hidden neurological mechanisms, e.g. how individual neurons in the brain coordinate to create a coherent mind.
- Gödel, Escher, Bach won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the National Book Award for Science Hardcover.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gödel, Escher, Bach article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gödel, Escher, Bach (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photograph by w:Douglas Hofstadter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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