Seeing anything as waves suggests immediate knobs: wavelength, frequency, amplitude, speed, medium, and a host of other basic notions that define the… - Douglas Hofstadter
" "Seeing anything as waves suggests immediate knobs: wavelength, frequency, amplitude, speed, medium, and a host of other basic notions that define the essence of undularity. Seeing anything as particles suggests totally different knobs: mass, shape, radius, rotation, constituents, and a host of other basic notions that define the essence of corpuscularity.
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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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Think of a dentist who has a list of
patients, and for each patient, a list of teeth. It makes perfect sense (and
plenty of money) to hold the patient fixed and vary his teeth-but it makes
no sense at all to hold one tooth fixed and vary the patient. (Although
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