“Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“It is extremely interesting, then, to think about the meaning of the word ‘form’ as it applies to constructions of arbitrarily complex shapes. For… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“We have a very hard time “seeing” our cognitive activity because it is the medium in which we swim. The attempt to put our… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“What does it matter if two brains are isomorphic, or quasi-isomorphic, or not isomorphic at all? The answer is that we have an intuitive… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths, such as “1 and 1 make 1” (for lovers), or “1… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!” — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress” — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“I can't help but recall, at this point, a horribly elitist but very droll remark by one of my favorite writers, the American "critic… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“This computer-generated pangram contains six a's, one b, three c's, three d's, thirty-seven e's, six f's, three g's, nine h's, twelve i's, one j,… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image