At the outset, there is a concrete situation with concrete components, and thus it is perceived as something unique and cleanly separable from the re… - Douglas Hofstadter

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At the outset, there is a concrete situation with concrete components, and thus it is perceived as something unique and cleanly separable from the rest of the world. After a while, though — perhaps a day later, perhaps a year — one runs into another situation that one finds to be similar, and a link is made.

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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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Native Name: Douglas Richard Hofstadter
Alternative Names: Douglas R. Hofstadter
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The repetition of the orphanage drama year after year, echoing the Nietzschean idea of eternal recurrence — that everything that has happened will happen again and again — seems to rob the little world of any real meaning. Why should the repetition of the fire inspector's lament make it sound so hollow?

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