Where We're At Podcast – No. 4
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid(1979). Director of the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University, Hofstadter is also the author of several other books as well as a verse translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. His studies of cognitive models and perception have been widely influential in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive theory. In his lecture "Analogy as the Core of Cognition," which he presented as part of the U of I's Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm series, he argues that language and human thought arise from a vast and complex set of analogies that we begin building in earliest childhood and continue to add to throughout our lives.
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Editors
Charles Hannon, Austin Happel
videography
Collin Bradford
Project Manager
Laura Bandy
