# Douglas Hofstadter **Domain:** Cognitive Science / Philosophy / Recursion **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Gödel, Escher, Bach]], [[The Mind's I]], [[Recursive Self-Model]], [[Substrate Independence]] --- ## Definition Douglas Hofstadter is an American cognitive scientist and writer whose work explores analogy, self-reference, strange loops and the emergence of selfhood from symbolic systems. ## Corpus Context [[Gödel, Escher, Bach]] and the anthology [[The Mind's I]] make him central to the corpus's treatment of recursive identity and pattern-based continuity. ## Relationships [[Gödel, Escher, Bach]], [[The Mind's I]], [[Recursive Self-Model]], [[Substrate Independence]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]