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Douglas R. Hofstadter has shared significant insights in the following books:

Godel, Escher, Bach:, an Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Basic Books, 1979
ISBN 0-465-02685-0
Copyright © 1979 by Basic Books, Inc,
ISBN 0465026567 pb Feb 1999 A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines
in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.

The Mind's I

Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
Douglas R. Hofstadter amd Daniel C. Dennett
Basic Books edition published April 1985
ISBN 0-553-01412-9
Copyright © 1985 Bantam Books 1981
ISBN 0553345842

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

Fluid Models and Creative Analogies

Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Human Thought
Douglas R. Hofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group
Basic Books, 1995
ISBN 0-465-05154-5