The cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter is well known for his pioneering work on artificial intelligence, his brilliant writing about language and identity, and for his classic, Pulitzer ...

Goldstein, a philosopher and novelist, presents a moving picture of a passionate life devoted to “abstruse” concerns and invokes, appropriately, the Platonic theme that a genuine philosopher hungers ...

My friend Owen cannot stop talking about “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” (2019), a book about logician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. But really, ...

This year, the Gödel Prize — the most coveted recognition for computer scientists — will have a soundtrack worthy of its name. The award ceremony, on 9 July in Copenhagen, will include a commissioned ...

Not cold reason but a profusion of metaphorical similarities let us understand the world, according to this distended, unfocused treatise on conceptual thought. Cognitive scientists Hofstadter (Gödel, ...

Hofstadter—who won a Pulitzer for his 1979 book, Gödel, Escher, Bach —blends a surprising array of disciplines and styles in his continuing rumination on the nature of consciousness. Eschewing the ...