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. In selections that
range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines,
artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and
Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the
soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century's
most renowned thinkers.