Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter states in the 20th anniversary preface to Godel, Escher, Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid: It is a loop that allows a system to 'perceive itself,' to become 'self-aware.'

Jason Silva: The Imaginary Foundation Says "Great Art Expands the Way We See" Jason Silva 2011

Douglas Hofstadter states in the 20th anniversary preface to Godel, Escher, Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid: It is a loop that allows a system to 'perceive itself,' to become 'self-aware.'

Jason Silva: The Imaginary Foundation Says "Great Art Expands the Way We See" Jason Silva 2011

More recently, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter declared the self to be a "strange loop" -- an emergent awareness and memory complex in the brain that turns back on itself, like a television camera aimed at its monitor.

Clay Farris Naff: Can Physics Save Your Soul? Clay Farris Naff 2011

More recently, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter declared the self to be a "strange loop" -- an emergent awareness and memory complex in the brain that turns back on itself, like a television camera aimed at its monitor.

Clay Farris Naff: Can Physics Save Your Soul? Clay Farris Naff 2011

Mr. Christian approvingly quotes Douglas Hofstadter, who wrote that once some mental function is programmed, people cease to consider it as an essential ingredient of 'real thinking.'

More Than Machine Julian Baggini 2011

Suggest you read the ol' Douglas Hofstadter, which discusses thinking and creativity.

This is Getting Boring: General Relativity Passes Yet another Big Test! | Universe Today 2010

Jim Lippard has links to memorial tributes by Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, James Randi, Wendy Grossman, and Phil Plait, and also has a link to a documentary on Gardner from December 2008.

The Panda's Thumb: Metatalk Archives 2010

Jim Lippard has links to memorial tributes by Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, James Randi, Wendy Grossman, and Phil Plait, and also has a link to a documentary on Gardner from December 2008.

Martin Gardner has died - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Douglas Hofstadter, author of the key book on the fundamentals of cognition, Gödel, Escher, Bach, has long lectured on the implications of Cope's work in understanding how the mind? and music? works.

David Cope: 'You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas' 2010

He was once described as "one of the great intellects produced in this country in this century" by Pulitzer-Prize winning scientist Douglas Hofstadter, who succeeded Mr. Gardner as author of "Mathematical Games" in 1981.

Martin Gardner, 'Mathematical Games' writer 2010