Douglas R. Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose work covers consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science. His I Am a Strange Loop (2007) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, and he co-edited The Mind's I with Daniel C. Dennett.