He graduated with Distinction in Mathematics from Stanford in 1965. Douglas attended the International School of Geneva for a year. Douglas grew up on the campus of Stanford University, where his father was a professor. Hofstadter is the son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Hofstadter. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979, for which he was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. Dennett, seems a welcome sign of change." William Barrett, The New York Times Book Reviewĭouglas Richard Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity.
"Ever since David Hume declared in the 18th century that the Self is only a heap of perceptions, the poor Ego has been in a shaky conditions indeed.Mind and consciousness becomes dispensable items in our accounts of reality, ghosts in the bodily machine.Yet there are indications here and there that the tide may be tuming.and the appearance of The Mind's I, edited by Douglas R. From verbalizing chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike fiction of Lem and Princess Ineffable, her circuits glowing read and gold, The Mind's I opens the mind to the Black Box of fantasy, to the windfalls of reflection, to new dimensions of exciting possibilities. Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind's I is a searching, probing cosmic journey of the mind that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time.
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