Douglas Hofstadter Quotes

A collection of quotes by Douglas Hofstadter.

Douglas Hofstadter is an American cognitive scientist, philosopher, and writer, known for his work in the fields of artificial intelligence and creativity. He is most famous for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid," which explores topics such as consciousness, self-reference, and the nature of intelligence. Hofstadter has made significant contributions to the understanding of computational models of thought, as well as the study of analogy-making and creativity. He has also written extensively about the mind-body problem and the philosophy of mind.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Douglas Hofstadter

Intelligence

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end abou

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

Douglas Hofstadter

Language