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Wikidata entry for Douglas Hofstadter, whose philosophical work on minds and formal systems is occasionally referenced in AI safety and alignment discussions about the nature of intelligence and understanding.

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This is the Wikidata structured data entry for Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive scientist and author known for 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' and work on consciousness, self-reference, and analogy-making. His research is relevant to AI safety discussions around the nature of mind, cognition, and the limits of formal systems.

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•Douglas Hofstadter is an American cognitive scientist and author, professor at Indiana University.
•Best known for 'Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid' (1979), exploring consciousness and self-reference.
•His work on analogy, cognition, and AI has influenced debates about what genuine intelligence and understanding entail.
•Hofstadter has been a vocal skeptic of modern deep learning as a path to human-like intelligence.
•Wikidata entry provides structured biographical and bibliographical metadata linking to related entities.

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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)	Website	https://www.aclu.org/	—

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