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.

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* 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.

* Event, a literary magazine published by Douglas College

* In a remarkably similar vein, science fiction artist and author Wayne Douglas Barlowe wrote Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A. D. Voyage to Darwin IV, which was a natural history study of an alien planet and its indigenous wildlife, written as though published in the year 2366.

Chapman's memoir, A Liar's Autobiography, was published in 1980 and, unusually for a work of this type, had five authors: Chapman, his partner David Sherlock, Alex Martin, David Yallop and Douglas Adams.

Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland.

( The ruleset was actually first published in Douglas Hofstadter's column Metamagical Themas in Scientific American in June 1982.

A biography, Ogden Nash: the Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse, was written by Douglas M. Parker, published in 2005 and in paperback in 2007.

* 1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.

Douglas Adams writes in the notes accompanying the published volume of original radio scripts that he wanted Slartibartfast's name to sound very rude, but still actually be broadcastable.

It is also known for the large number of famous people who have been treated there, including mathematician John Nash, Douglas S. Holder, who ran poetry groups in inpatient wards for over a decade, published Poems of Boston and Just Beyond: From the Back Bay to the Back Ward.

The concept of a strange loop was proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop, published in 2007.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

In 2004, Professor Douglas Little of Clark University published a lengthy academic article explicitly linking the TV series to CIA history: " Mission Impossible: The CIA and the Cult of Covert Action in the Middle East ".

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time is a posthumous collection of previously published and unpublished material by Douglas Adams.

Shortly before the Raman analysis was published, historian Douglas McNaughton based a mistaken theory about the ink around McCrone's emphasis on the chromium-rich black particle, having obtained unpublished data on the similar particles in Möller's report.

A description of the Beowulf cluster, from the original " how-to ", which was published by Jacek Radajewski and Douglas Eadline under the Linux Documentation Project in 1998.

By the time that story was published, however, the term was already starting to gain a connotation of sexual deviance ( especially that of homosexual and / or effeminate males ), which is already known in the late 19th century ; an early recorded usage of the word in this sense was in a letter by John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry to his son Lord Alfred Douglas.

The 1950s saw the publication of two further works: Douglas Goldring's Regency portrait painter, and Kenneth Garlick's catalogue of Lawrence's paintings ( a further edition was published in 1989 ).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts is a book, published in 1985, containing the scripts for the original radio series version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

The Meaning of Liff ( UK Edition: ISBN 0-330-28121-6, US Edition: ISBN 0-517-55347-3 ) is a humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in the United Kingdom in 1983, and the USA in 1984.

* Douglas Macintosh-" A Handbook of 9. 5 mm Cinematography " ( published by Photoworld, Llandudno, in 2000 )

Douglas Adams granted permission for the adaptation on condition that it was never published in collected form.

In 1980, he published an " Alternative Budget " that attacked what Douglas called the Muldoon government ’ s “ tinkering ” with the economy.