Ends Quote by Douglas Hofstadter

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions,…

— Douglas Hofstadter

“It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of the task which it is performing, and survey what it has…

— Douglas Hofstadter

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

— Douglas Hofstadter

Irrationality is the square root of all evil

— Douglas Hofstadter

Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A…

— Douglas Hofstadter

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also…

— Douglas Hofstadter

The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire…

— Douglas Hofstadter

No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

— Douglas Hofstadter

You can never represent yourself totally … to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot…

— Douglas Hofstadter

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

— Douglas Hofstadter

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has…

— Douglas Hofstadter

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively…

— Douglas Hofstadter