Douglas R. Hofstadter
Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
February 15, 1945
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
86 editions
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1979
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I Am a Strange Loop
39 editions
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2007
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The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
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37 editions
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1981
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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
22 editions
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1985
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
28 editions
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2011
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Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
7 editions
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1995
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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
11 editions
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1991
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The Tumult of Inner Voices or What Is the Meaning of the Word "I"
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1982
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Ambigrammi: Un microcosmo ideale per lo studio della creatività
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Piano Music
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“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.”
― Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
― Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
“Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law”
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“Meaning lies as much
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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