# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-hofstadter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:31:51.099Z

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name: "Douglas Hofstadter"
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description: "Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, ambigrams, artificial intelligence, 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 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology."
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birthDate: "1945-02-15"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump