December 2022
Intermediate to advanced
130 pages
4h 18m
English
Sherry Turkle (2004 [1984]) argues many computer scientists coming of age in the 1980s were influenced by Douglas R. Hofstadter’s (2000 [1979]) book Gödel, Escher, Bach. The book focuses on the concept of the “strange loop” (p. 10), which is the name Hofstadter (2000 [1979]) gives to phenomena which emerge through self-reference and repetition. Such a concept is important in computer science because of the technique of recursion; used in functions which reference themselves, as briefly discussed in Chapter 2. Hofstadter (2000 [1979]) argues strange loops represent an “Eternal Golden Braid” through human thought, and indeed, perhaps throughout ...