Synopsis
Hofstadters collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
Recommendations
Generating recommendations…
Our AI is preparing recommendations for Metamagical Themas. This usually takes under a minute.
About Douglas R. Hofstadter
D
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Born 1945
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
View author page