Actor · Writer
Born Feb 15, 1945 · New York City, New York, USA
Active 1988–present · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Award, Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Barwise Prize, Albertus-Magnus professorate
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, ambigrams, artificial…