Douglas R. Hofstadter on AI
3 quotes from Douglas R. Hofstadter on the wall, 1980 to 2007, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Tal Cohen's Bookshelf, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 3.
- 2007
Kurzweil’s desperate hopes seriously cloud his scientific objectivity
Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter of Indiana University, interviewed by Tal Cohen in September 2007 after publishing I Am a Strange Loop, answering a question on Ray Kurzweil's view of uploading minds.
Tal Cohen's BookshelfAn Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following I am a Strange Loop
The end of humanity as we know it
Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter on mind uploading and the Singularity, answering Tal Cohen's question about Ray Kurzweil's vision in an interview following his book I Am a Strange Loop, September 2007.
Tal Cohen's BookshelfAn Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following I am a Strange Loop
- 1980
One of the wrongest, most infuriating articles I have ever read
Hofstadter, computer scientist at Indiana University and author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, wrote this signed commentary, "Reductionism and religion", on Searle's Chinese room article in The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, September 1980.