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In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. - Douglas Hofstadter
" "In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
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About Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is a mathematician, cognitive scientist, and Pulitzer Prize winning author.
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Douglas Richard Hofstadter
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
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We claim that cognition takes place thanks to a constant flow of categorizations, and that at the base of it all is found, in contrast to classification (which aims to put all things into fixed and rigid mental boxes), the phenomenon of categorization through analogy-making, which endows human thinking with its remarkable fluidity.
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