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Douglas R. Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.—Wikipedia 2021-03-03

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American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science

Born 15. Februar 1945

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  • Cover of: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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  • Cover of: The Mind's I (Penguin Press Science)

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  • Cover of: Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

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  • Cover of: I Am a Strange Loop

    First published in 2007 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: Fluid concepts and creative analogies: computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought

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  • Cover of: To Light the Flame of Reason: Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century

    First published in 2022 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Le Ton beau de Marot: in praise of the music of language

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  • Cover of: Butterfly in the Quantum World: The Story of the Most Fascinating Quantum Fractal

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    First published in 1987 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Rhapsody on a theme by Clément Marot: The Grace A. Tanner lecture in human values delivered at Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, April 20, 1995 (Grace A. Tanner lecture in human values)

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  • Cover of: Shakespeare's plays weren't written by him, but by someone else of the same name: an essay on intentionality and frame-based knowledge representation systems

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  • Cover of: Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics: Comments on Donald Knuth's Article "The Concept of a Meta-Font"

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  • Cover of: The Tumult of Inner Voices or What Is the Meaning of the Word 'I'? (Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values, 1982)

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  • Cover of: אני לולאה מוזרה

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  • Cover of: גדל, אשר, באך: גביש בן־אלמוות : פוגה מטפורית על נפשות ומכונות, ברוח לואיס קרול

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  • Cover of: GEB: yi tiao yong heng di jin dai

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American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science

Born 15. Februar 1945

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Artificial intelligence, Künstliche Intelligenz, Metamathematics, Consciousness, Intellect, Intelligence artificielle, Mathematics, Philosophy, Self (Philosophy), Symmetry, Denken, Kognitiver Prozess, Kunstmatige intelligentie, Mathématiques, Metamathematik, Philosophie, Self, Soul, Waarneming, 08.36 philosophical anthropology, philosophy of psychology, Addresses, essays, lectures, Alma, Ame, American Science fiction, American Short stories

People

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), M. C. Escher (1898-1972), Donald Knuth, Kurt Gödel, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Kurt Gōdel, M. C. Escher (Maurits Cornelis) (1898-1972), Martin Gardner (1914-2010)

Time

20th century

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  • Douglas R. Hofstadter
  • Douglas R Hofstadter
  • D. Hofstadter
  • Doug Hofstadter
  • Douglas Richard Hofstadter
  • Douglas R Hofstader

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