Douglas Richard Hofstadter ist ein US-amerikanischer Physiker, Informatiker und Kognitionswissenschaftler. Wikipedia
„Dieser Satz enthält genau trei Feehler.“
Metamagicum. Fragen nach der Essenz von Geist und Struktur. Stuttgart, 1988. Übersetzer: Thomas Niehaus. ISBN 3-608-95774-X
Original engl.: "This sentence contains exactly threee erors." - Metamagical Themas. 1985. p. 7
Quoted in Deborah Solomon, "The Mind Reader," http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01wwlnQ4.t.html New York Times (2007-04-01)
Quelle: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979), Chapter 9: "Mumon and Gödel"
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
“Reality includes creating every real connection and reference.”
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
“Which statement seems more true: (1) I have a brain. (2) I am a brain.”
The Mind's I with Daniel C. Dennett (1981)
“Irrationality is the square root of all evil.”
"Irrationality is the Square Root of All Evil" (Sep, 1983) Scientific American 249 (3) article reprinted in Metamagical Themas (1985)
and the same holds, of course, for many composers
This statement refers to a koan
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
“Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level”
Quelle: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979), Chapter 20: "Strange Loops Or Tangled Heirarchies"
“In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.”
Metamagical Themas (1985)
"Recursive Structures and Processes"
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
“If the meanings of true and false were switched, this sentence wouldn't be false.”
I Am a Strange Loop (2007) p. 68
Quelle: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979), Chapter 9: "Mumon and Gödel"
"Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering"
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
"Six-Part Ricercar"
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
