The book you are holding in your hands was written by D. Hofstadter together with his colleague and friend Daniel Dennett and in “co-authorship” with famous thinkers of the 20th century: a classic anthology of essays includes works by Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, Robert Nozik, Stanislaw Lem and many others. As in “GEB”, the reader is again invited into the amazing and paradoxical world of the human spirit and “thinking” machines. Here are presented different views on the nature of human thinking and the nature of artificial intelligence, here concepts such as “consciousness”, “soul”, “personality” are explored, compared, collide... “The Eye of the Mind” closely examines them from various points of view: literature, psychology , philosophy, artificial intelligence... All that remains is to follow the invitation of the authors and, plunging into this book as if into the depths of consciousness, enjoy the virtuoso movement of thought.

Douglas Hofstadter is already familiar to the Russian reader. Translated into 17 languages of the world and becoming a world intellectual bestseller, the book of this outstanding American scientist and writer “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid” (“GEB”) was published in Russian by the publishing house “Bakhrakh-M” and without exaggeration was an event in the cultural life of the country.

Douglas Hofstadter is a professor of cognitive science and computer science, philosophy, psychology, history and philosophy of science, and comparative literature at Indiana University (USA). Head of the Center for the Study of the Creative Capabilities of the Brain. Member of the American Cybernetics Association and the Cognitive Science Society. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Literary Award.

Daniel Dennett is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Tufte University (USA).