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		Hofstadter, D. R., Speechstuff and thoughtstuff: Musings on the resonances created by words and phrases via the subliminal perception of their buried parts.
		Hofstadter, D. "Analogy as the Core of Cognition." In "The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science," edited by Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, and Boicho N. Kokinov.
		Hofstadter, D. R., and Marshall, J. A Self-Watching Cognitive Architecture of High-Level Perception and Analogy-Making.
	www.cogs.indiana.edu /people/homepages/hofstadter.html (1474 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter
		Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is probably best known for his 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.
		Hofstadter received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975.
		Douglas is bilingual (English and French), having spent his youth in Geneva.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/do/Douglas_Hofstadter.html (157 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Douglas Hofstadter
		Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is probably best known for his 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.
		Hofstadter received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975.
		Douglas is bilingual (English and French), having spent his youth in Geneva.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/do/Douglas_Hofstadter (182 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Douglas R. Hofstadter
		Douglas R. Hofstadter, a noted author, cognitive scientist and proud Stanford son, returns to Stanford in February, 2006, with a lecture called Analogy as the Core of Cognition.”; Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science, and Director of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, at Indiana University.
		Onegin not only offered Hofstadter a test case for comparative translation in Le Ton beau, where he dedicated several chapters to it: it also became his next major work, this time as a translator rather than author (although his “Translator’s Preface” to the work is a major essay in itself).
		Hofstadter’s “novel versification” (as he wittily subtitled it) of Pushkin’s famous “novel in verse” is both a loving tribute to the original and a wonderful addition to the family of Onegin translations into English.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/hofstadter (1879 words)

	disinformation \| douglas hofstadter
		Douglas Hofstadter, College Professor of cognitive science and computer science, director of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, adjunct professor of philosophy, psychology, history and philosophy of science, and comparative literature at Indiana University, never sleeps.
		Hofstadter is the author of several books that probe the interworkings of high-level perception, analogy making, the upper levels of creativity and the emergent self.
		Hofstadter approaches the Mind" from the perspective of the computer sciences, in that there are both hardware and software aspects of human intelligence.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id429/pg1/index.html (608 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter's sequences. Chaotic sequences.Unsolved problems.
		It is "The Hofstadter Q-sequence" A005185 in the enciclopedy of N.J.A. Sloane.
		Hofstadter : The male of a pair of recurrences A005376
		Tanny : A well-behaved cousin of the Hofstadter sequence, a(0)=a(1)=a(2)=1, a(n)=a(n-1-a(n-1))+a(n-2-a(n-2)) A006949
	perso.orange.fr /jean-paul.davalan/mots/suites/hof/index-en.html (357 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter to give Olin Lecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Douglas R. Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science and computer science at Indiana University and recipient of a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, will speak at Cornell on Thursday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m.
		Hofstadter, who directs Indiana University's Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, first grew fascinated by language as a teen-ager in Europe, where his father, a physicist, took the family on sabbatical.
		Hofstadter's first book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (popularly known as "GEB"), incorporates many fields to show how consciousness, free will and a sense of personal identity emerge in systems that enjoy a specific type of self-reflection.
	www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/97/4.17.97/Hofstadter.html (324 words)

	Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter to present Presidential Lecture on Feb. 6 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hofstadter directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition (CRCC) and is an adjunct professor of history and philosophy of science, philosophy, psychology and comparative literature at Indiana.
		Hofstadter also is co-author of The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1981), which was selected by American Scientist as one of "100 or so books that shaped a century of science," and the author of Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (1997).
		Hofstadter received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Stanford in 1965 and a doctorate in physics from the University of Oregon in 1975.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/2006/pr-hofstadter-020106.html (331 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter
		Hofstadter is multilingual; he spent a few years in Sweden in the mid-1960s, where he learned Swedish.
		Hofstadter predicted that the allowed energy level values of an electron in this crystal lattice, as a function of a magnetic field applied to the system, formed a fractal set.
		Hofstadter claimed the book (originally published in 1958) was highly influential to his thinking during his early years.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Douglas_Hofstadter.php (1125 words)

	kwc blog: Talk: Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition
		Hofstadter's own analogy-making between the properties of exponents and possible properties of subscripts led him to believe that they would be super.
		Hofstadter also mentioned other shadows, such as a "rain shadow," which in one instance is a desert next to Cascade Mountains, which stop the rain.
		Hofstadter talked about how Einstein was able to make the connection between the bell-shaped curve for the radiation density in a "fl-body" cavity and the bell-shaped curve for the energy distribution in an ideal-gas container.
	kwc.org /blog/archives/2006/2006-02-06.talk_douglas_hofstadter_analogy_as_the_core_of_cognition.html (1831 words)

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		Douglas Hofstadter is College Professor of cognitive science and computer science, director of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, and adjunct professor of philosophy, psychology, history and philosophy of science, and comparative literature.
		Since the symbols themselves are uninterpreted (which is what we really mean by “formal”), we have a system as austere and elegant as chess, where it is understood that the game arises from – and entirely consists in – the rules for moving the pieces on the board.
		Professor Hofstadter is now writing a book about consciousness and will speak to us about his new ideas.
	www.lycos.com /info/douglas-hofstadter.html (543 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter
		Professor Hofstadter received his B.S. in mathematics from Stanford University (1965), and his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oregon (1972, 1975).
		Hofstadter's research is driven by a long-standing interest in both creativity and consciousness.
		Among the most important of Professor Hofstadter's recent explorations is the geometry of the triangle and the complex interrelationships between a triangle's many centers, central circles, central lines, and so forth.
	www.indiana.edu /~alldrp/members/hofstadter.html (297 words)

	Perspective of Mind: Douglas Hofstadter
		Hofstadter likens ant teams to signals; and, basically, "the effect of signals is to transport ants of various specialization to approximate parts of the colony." Ultimately, the fully evolved ant colony takes on a holistic aspect, and emerging molecular mechanisms take form.
		Hofstadter succinctly states, the brain "has a formal, hidden hardware level which is a formidably complex mechanism that makes transitions from state to state according to definite rules embodied in it." [Ibid, p.
		Hofstadter believes that information is intrinsically inside the structure of these messages; he puts it thus, "meaning resides in the text, not in the method of decipherment." Meaning, however, is a matter of interpretation.
	www.bizcharts.com /stoa_del_sol/conscious/conscious2.html (1285 words)

	Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist \|\| Douglas Hofstadter at Stanford \|\| February \|\| 2006
		Douglas Hofstadter, of Godel Escher Bach fame, gave a lecture at Stanford this evening.
		Hofstadter’s theory is that all thinking and cognition comes back to this same core use of analogy to one’s own experience: “This is like that other thing, so it should behave similarly”.
		I had started a series of posts a couple months ago (part 1 and part 2) that was exploring that cognitive process of how we fill in information that we do not know by assuming it was like our previous experience (I need to go back and finish up that series of posts).
	www.nehrlich.com /blog/2006/02/06/douglas-hofstadter-at-stanford (1800 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter at AllExperts
		Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic.
		The son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter, he graduated in Mathematics at Stanford University in 1965 and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975.
		Hofstadter is related by marriage to the evolutionary theorist Steven Jay Gould: Hofstadter's* paternal aunt was married to Gould's maternal uncle.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/do/douglas_hofstadter.htm (1204 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter
		Widely respected as one of the world's great thinkers, Douglas Hofstadter is known by his former classmates as a warm, witty, and engaging fellow.
		Hofstadter's compelling style awakens the reader to the proposition that a special type of feedback loop inhabits our brains, the "strange loop," a concept that forms the key to understanding selves and consciousness.
		Hofstadter employs Pushkin's demanding original rhyme scheme, devising dozens of ingenious rhymes-and recounts his delighted immersion in Pushkin and the Russian language, in a beguiling preface that's almost as much fun as the immortal Eugene Onegin itself, according to Kirkus Reviews.
	www.florin.com /ecolint/alumni/authors/hofstadter.html (1039 words)

	Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid / Douglas R. Hofstadter
		Before each of GEB's twenty chapters, Hofstadter includes a dialogue, in which Achilles, the Tortoise, and their company discuss various aspects that will later be examined by the author in the chapter to follow.
		The musical example that Hofstadter uses is Bach's Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin, where the listeners' imagination fill in “between the notes” as the violin plays, and one often imagines hearing the accompanying piano.
		Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern is a collection of Hofstadter's monthly “Metamagical Themas” column in Scientific American during the early '80s.
	www.forum2.org /tal/books/geb.html (1183 words)

	Amazon.com: I Am a Strange Loop: Books: Douglas Hofstadter
		Similarly, Hofstadter writes, "consciousness is not an [added] option" for beings evolved to engage in symbolic thought, recognize patterns, create categories, reason via analogies and wonder about the self.
		Hofstadter's example of a real-world strange loop is a key construct in Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem, published in 1931, a proof that any seemingly comprehensive mathematical system will contain true statements that cannot be proven.
		Hofstadter points to another level at which self might exist, up among the symbols and patterns -- or rather, to various levels on which self exists simultaneously.
	www.amazon.com /Am-Strange-Loop-Douglas-Hofstadter/dp/0465030785 (1357 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
		The son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter, he graduated in Mathematics at Stanford University and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon in 1975.
		Hofstadter is related by marriage to the evolutionary theorist Steven Jay Gould.
		Hofstadter's father's sister was married to the brother of Gould's mother.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter (1232 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Douglas R. Hofstadter
		Douglas Hofstadter and his research group, FARG, have a particular approach to modelling human thought processes, and this book collects together some of their work over the last two decades.
		Hofstadter demonstrates time and again that such an approach is neither necessary nor in any sense 'better', by exhibiting several different translations of classic poems, many of which have managed to preserve the music as well as the meaning.
		Hofstadter goes on to contrast the curious 'invisibility' of translators, despite the enormous creativity and skill they bring to their job, with the almost 'cult of the individual' of musical performers [and conductors] where the identity of the original composer can definitely play second fiddle.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/h/hofstdtr.htm (2284 words)

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		Douglas Hofstadter is College Professor of cognitive science and computer science, director of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, and adjunct professor of philosophy, psychology, history and philosophy of science, and comparative literature.
		Since the symbols themselves are uninterpreted (which is what we really mean by “formal”), we have a system as austere and elegant as chess, where it is understood that the game arises from – and entirely consists in – the rules for moving the pieces on the board.
		Professor Hofstadter is now writing a book about consciousness and will speak to us about his new ideas.
	espanol.lycos.com /info/douglas-hofstadter.html (543 words)

	SPECIAL EVENT - Douglas Hofstadter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Douglas R. Hofstadter (Ph.D. in Physics, Oregon, 1975) is professor of cognitive science and computer science at Indiana University.
		Hofstadter's first book, "Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" discusses work in many fields to show how consciousness, free will, and a sense of personal identity emerge in systems that employ a specific type of self-reflection.
		Hofstadter has published work in theoretical physics, mathematics, music, visual art, language translation, and other areas.
	www.cs.umass.edu /csinfo/colloquia/DEPT/hofstadter.html (478 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Douglas Hofstadter in his amazing Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid [1979] makes a case for the possibility of a machine simulating the human mind.
		Hofstadter implies that the successful use of Gödel's results requires that the mind must be able to continually produce an algorithm to extend the previous formal system by adding the needed Gödel formula.
		Hofstadter continues his work with his Fluid Analogies Research group at Indiana University in the cause of Artificial Intelligence.
	www.ndc.edu /mccloskey_newman/douglas.htm (345 words)

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