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  <name><![CDATA[Douglas R. Hofstadter]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic whose research focuses on the nature of thinking, consciousness, and creativity. He is best known for his book &lt;i&gt;Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid&lt;/i&gt; which was published in 1979, and which won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>New York, New York</hometown>  <born_at>02/15/1945</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[I Am a Strange Loop]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Daniel C. Dennett]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stanislaw Lem]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Terrel Miedaner]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jorge Luis Borges]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Douglas R. Hofstadter]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Douglas R. Hofstadter]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Tumult of Inner Voices or What Is the Meaning of the Word 'I'?]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ambigrammi: Un microcosmo ideale per lo studio della creativita]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rhapsody on a Theme by Clement Marot]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Douglas R. Hofstadter]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[El Ojo De LA Mente]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Douglas R. Hofstadter]]></name>
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