In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
Douglas Hofstadter (1945- )
Best known for the 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: the Eternal Golden Braid, Hofstadter is the Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences at Indiana University at Bloomington and was for many years a columnist (Metamagical Themas) for Scientific American magazine. Much of his work centers on how the mind processes language and the interaction of form and content, with frequent excursions into the philosophic nature of music. He is the son of Nobel Prize winner Robert Hofstadter.
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