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Surfaces and Essences
Language: en
Pages: 594
Authors: Douglas Hofstadter
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-23 - Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

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Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situation
I Am a Strange Loop
Language: en
Pages: 544
Authors: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-27 - Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

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Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.
Metamagical Themas
Language: en
Pages: 622
Authors: Douglas R Hofstadter
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-04 - Publisher: Basic Books

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Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Language: en
Pages: 832
Authors: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Categories: Art and music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Penguin Group(CA)

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'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Language: en
Pages: 518
Authors: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Categories: Analogy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

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Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and