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Just as we believe in other peoples’ kidneys and brains (thanks almost entirely to arguments from analogy and authority),

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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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Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and so forth.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

Just as we believe in other peoples’ kidneys and brains (thanks almost entirely to arguments from analogy and authority), - Douglas Hofstadter

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