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Douglas Hofstadter, in his Pulitzer prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, explains that these " Gödel-statements " always refer to the system itself, similar to the way the Epimenides paradox uses statements that refer to themselves, such as " this statement is false " or " I am lying ".
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Douglas and Hofstadter
Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.
Other thinkers, such as Douglas Hofstadter, dismiss this argument as incoherent.
For example, Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter argue that anything capable of passing the Turing test is necessarily conscious, while David Chalmers argues that a philosophical zombie could pass the test, yet fail to be conscious.
* The Mind's I ( Bantam, Reissue edition 1985, with Douglas Hofstadter ) ( ISBN 0-553-34584-2 )
Douglas Richard Hofstadter ( born February 15, 1945 ) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.
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A typical description of the problem is given in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter
Typical of these references is Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, which accords the paradox a prominent place in a discussion of self-reference.
A trivial example of the specific form of the Eliza effect, given by Douglas Hofstadter, involves an automated teller machine which displays the words " THANK YOU " at the end of a transaction.
* Hofstadter, Douglas.
* 1945 – Douglas Hofstadter, American academic and writer
A January 1983 Metamagical Themas column by Douglas Hofstadter, in Scientific American, was influential as was his 1985 book of the same name.
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, published in 1979, discusses the ideas of self-reference and strange loops, drawing on a wide range of artistic and scientific work, including the art of M. C. Escher and the music of J. S. Bach, to illustrate ideas behind Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Douglas and Pulitzer
They had three children: Laura, Molly-who was disabled and not able to communicate, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Douglas Hofstadter.
* Thornton Wilder, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and novelist, once made Douglas his temporary home.
* Douglas A. Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Wall Street Journal was raised in Leland.
One of the most lucid statements of a Gödel based anti-mechanism argument can be found in Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
He had served with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first non-American to win the Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence in 1942.
She also appeared in such television series as Robert Montgomery Presents, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, Lights Out, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and The Christophers.
* Douglas Starr: Pulitzer Prize
Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard ; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.
* 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing-Harvey E. Newbranch for an editorial entitled " Law and the Jungle ," which decried the lynching of a black man on the lawn of the Douglas County Courthouse.
Douglas and prize
Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon owns a prize Monet, Femmes dans un Jardin.
The authorities began to allow prize matches and amateur boxing under this new rule system when John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry endorsed its use.
Douglas Gordon, a Scottish video artist, won the second Hugo Boss prize.
Tokyo Dome has hosted several championship prize fights, including the heavyweight boxing championship fight on February 11, 1990, where Mike Tyson suffered his first professional defeat by losing the title to 42 – 1 shot James " Buster " Douglas by a tenth-round knockout.
A part of his thesis won the Douglas McGregor Memorial Award ( 1966 ) and a prize from the Columbia University Centre for the Study of the Corporation ( 1967 ).
His doctoral thesis received the Douglas McGregor Memorial Award and a prize from the Columbia University Centre for the Study of the Corporation.
They could've easily given the prize to Douglas and the other two and left me out.
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