Douglas Hofstadter

...of cognitive life," he said. Are you likely to spend a week of your life when you're 60 looking at your life when you're 20? Douglas Hofstadter, cognitive scientist at Indiana University-Bloomington This could work for those in the...

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...1981 Godel's Proof (2002 revised edition) by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman, edited by Hofstadter (ISBN 0-8147-5816-9). Hofstadter claimed the book (originally published in 1958) was highly influential to his thinking during his...

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...cherished "The Ambidextrous Universe," a study of symmetry and asymmetry), Noam Chomsky, Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Douglas Hofstadter and the entire French literary group called the Oulipo (the Workshop for Potential Literature). Of...

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...born April 14th, 1962, in Edessa , Greece) is a cognitive scientist. He has worked on his Ph. D. with Douglas Hofstadter at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and developed Phaeaco, an architecture to solve...

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...task called a Bongard problem, which was invented by American computer scientist Mikhail Bongard and popularized by Douglas Hofstadter in his Pulitzer prize winning book, Godel, Escher, Bach. Bongard problems use line drawings: here,...

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...in two-dimensional electron systems with a superimposed nano-fabricated lattice. Early Butterfly by Hofstadter he named "Gplot" The Hofstadter butterfly was the first fractal structure ever discovered in physics. In particular, Gplot...

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In 1998, Klaus Pinn, scientist at University of Munster (Germany) and in close communication with Hofstadter, suggested another generalization of Hofstadter's Q sequence which Pinn called F sequences. Thus Pinn introduced additional...

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...ask her about some of trickier or ambiguous parts. Nevertheless, Westhoff's own failures don't justify Hofstadter's approach, and at least Hofstadter is fairly fair in not trying too hard to make his case in this way: while not truly...

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...the University of Paderborn in Germany and a couple of pals have their way. This alternate exam is called the Hofstadter-Turing Test, after Douglas Hofstadter who put forward a version of the idea in an essay called Coffee House Conversation...

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...as "this statement is false". In part because of the chimerical nature of his subject matter, and in part because of the kind of writer Hofstadter is, this is a long, digressive and looping book, full of autobiography and analogy,...

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