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Douglas Hofstadter

Which statement seems more true: (1) I have a brain. (2) I am a brain.

— Douglas Hofstadter men

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

— Douglas Hofstadter fact

Solomon: Your entry insays that your work has inspired many students to begin careers in computing and .Hofstadter: I have no interest in computers. The entry is filled with inaccuracies, and it kind of depresses me.Solomon: So fix it.Hofstadter: The next day someone will fix it back.

— Douglas Hofstadter work

It has been suggested thatbeinto this article or section. ()

— Douglas Hofstadter art

The "Strange Loop" phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

— Douglas Hofstadter war

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 lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

— Douglas Hofstadter mind

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

— Douglas Hofstadter you

One of the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism is that there is no way to characterize what Zen is. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over. It might seem, then, that all efforts to explain Zen are complete wastes of time. But that is not the attitude of Zen masters and students. For instance, Zen koans are a central part of Zen study, verbal though they are. Koans are supposed to be 'triggers' which, though they do not contain enough information in themselves to impart enlightenment, may possibly be sufficient to unlock the mechanisms inside one's mind that lead to enlightenment. But in general, the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

— Douglas Hofstadter truth

Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism. … Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories. … human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon— which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.

— Douglas Hofstadter nature

Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful—cannot lead to all truths.

— Douglas Hofstadter truth

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

— Douglas Hofstadter lies

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 end

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

— Douglas Hofstadter soul

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

— Douglas Hofstadter cat

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

— Douglas Hofstadter self

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

— Douglas Hofstadter world

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

— Douglas Hofstadter intelligence

You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

— Douglas Hofstadter people

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

— Douglas Hofstadter art

We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).

— Douglas Hofstadter man

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

— Douglas Hofstadter you

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

— Douglas Hofstadter live

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I dont have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. Im a little more respectful of ants.

— Douglas Hofstadter soul

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