Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature. He is best known for his book 'Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid', which won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 1980. Hofstadter's work explores themes of consciousness, analogy-making, and the sense of 'I', blending ideas from various disciplines to illuminate the complexities of the human mind.
Books
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1. Gödel, Escher, Bach
The book explores concepts of formal systems, recursion, self-reference, and infinity through the interdisciplinary lens of mathematics, art, and music. The narrative intertwines biographical sketches of the titular figures - a mathematician, an artist, and a composer - with dialogues and discussions to illustrate complex ideas. The author uses these figures as metaphors to delve into the nature of human cognition and consciousness, suggesting that our minds are essentially self-referential systems akin to the works of Gödel, Escher, and Bach.
