Douglas R. Hofstadter

About the author

Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American cognitive and computer scientist who researches the sense of self, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, and artificial intelligence. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the National Book Award for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.