Douglas Hofstadter

“Every concept we have is a packed bundle of analogies.”

“The main message of this book is that we are all, at our core, patterns whose abstract properties remain the same no matter what the physical substrate.”

“Meaning is an emergent property of a complex system.”

“Analogy is the core of all thinking.”

“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.”

“We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is our own self.”

“Hindsight is always 20/20.”

“In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference.”

“A single metaphor can give birth to a theory.”

“The 'I' is a hallucination.”

“There is a strange loop in the human mind, an illusion of a self, an 'I' that is the locus of consciousness.”