Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979. It won both the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science.
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Analogy as the Core of Cognition
The Nature of Categories and Concepts
Gödel, Escher, Bach
The So-called Singularity: An Onrushing Tsunami, or Another Y2K?
I Am a Strange Loop
Introduction
Quotes from his 2006 Singularity Summit presentation
Figure and Ground
Section 1: Chapter 1 - On Self-Referential Sentences
Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 (Arr. A. Frackenpohl for Brass Quintet) : Contrapunctus IV
Overview
The MU Puzzle
Meaning and Form in Mathematics
Chapter 2 - Self-Referential Sentences: A Follow-up
The American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (1984) - Douglas R. Hofstadter, Ph.D., Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey (MIT, Lecture 3)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey (MIT, Lecture 4)
Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 (Arr. A. Frackenpohl for Brass Quintet) : Contrapunctus I
Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 (Arr. A. Frackenpohl for Brass Quintet) : Contrapunctus III
Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 (Arr. A. Frackenpohl for Brass Quintet) : Contrapunctus II
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 1 in C Major
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 2 in A Minor "Chromatique"
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 3 in E Major "Tristesse"
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 5 in G-Flat Major "Black Keys"
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 6 in E-Flat Minor
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 7 in C Major
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 8 in F Major
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 9 in F Minor
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 10 in A-Flat Major
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 11 in E-Flat Major "Arpeggio"
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10: No. 12 in C Minor "Revolutionary"
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Aeolian Harp"
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 2 in F Minor
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 3 in F Major
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 4 in A Minor
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 5 in E Minor
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 6 in G-Sharp Minor
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 8 in D-Flat Major
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 9 in G-Flat Major "Butterfly"
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 10 in B Minor
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 11 in A Minor "Winter Wind"
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 12 in C Minor
J.S. Bach: I. Adagio (Sonata No. 1 In G Minor)
J.S. Bach: II. Fuga (Allegro) (Sonata No. 1 In G Minor)
J.S. Bach: III. Siciliano (Sonata No. 1 In G Minor)
J.S. Bach: IV. Presto (Sonata No. 1 In G Minor)
J.S. Bach: I. Grave (Sonata No. 2 In A Minor)
J.S. Bach: II. Fuga (Sonata No. 2 In A Minor)
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