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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-r-hofstadter/saying-that-studying-the-brain-is-limited-to-the-study-of-physical/)

[Douglas R. Hofstadter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-r-hofstadter/)

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