[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fGbVCL48UpNnAkODKP66aRQsVmKHIQsz790kCHVROwDA":3,"$frEef6JPuUT_3uKS9gup46k-WZ1PMlbNljy_2iIyeA8I":12},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},21909,"Douglas R. Hofstadter","D",63,null,"douglas-r-hofstadter",[],{"quotes":13,"pagination":77},[14,22,28,34,40,46,52,58,64,71],{"id":15,"quote_text":16,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":19,"source":20,"quote_tag":21,"commentary":9},2990293,"There can be conceptual skeletons on several different levels of abstraction. For instance, the “isomorphism” between Bongard problems 70 and 71, already pointed out, involves higher-level conceptual skeleton than that needed to solve either problem in isolation.",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":9},2990291,"Poised midway between the unvisualizable cosmic vastness of curved spacetime and the dubious shadowy flickerings of charged quanta, we human beings, more like rainbows and mirages than like raindrops or boulders, are unpredictable self-writing poems – vague, metaphorical, ambiguous, sometimes exceedingly beautiful.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":29,"quote_text":30,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":31,"source":32,"quote_tag":33,"commentary":9},2990289,"It sometimes feels as if I had shouted a deeply cherished message out into an empty chasm and nobody heard me.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":35,"quote_text":36,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":37,"source":38,"quote_tag":39,"commentary":9},2990287,"And that is also the way the human mind works – by the compounding of old ideas into new structures that become new ideas that can themselves be used in compounds, and round and round endlessly, growing ever more remote from the basic earthbound imagery that is each language’s soil.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":41,"quote_text":42,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":43,"source":44,"quote_tag":45,"commentary":9},2990286,"It is curious, how one often mistrusts one’s own opinions if they are stated by someone else.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":47,"quote_text":48,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":49,"source":50,"quote_tag":51,"commentary":9},2990283,"I don’t feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":53,"quote_text":54,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":55,"source":56,"quote_tag":57,"commentary":9},2990281,"It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of the task which it is performing, and survey what it has done; it is always looking for, and often finding, patterns.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":59,"quote_text":60,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":61,"source":62,"quote_tag":63,"commentary":9},2990279,"I personally cannot imagine that consciousness will be fully understood without reference to Godelian loops or level-crossing feedback loops.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":65,"quote_text":66,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":67,"source":68,"quote_tag":69,"commentary":70},2990277,"It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\n\nThis profound observation is from Douglas R. Hofstadter's 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, \"Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.\" At the time of writing, Hofstadter was a young professor at Stanford University, deeply immersed in the world of mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. His work was influenced by the intellectual currents of the 1970s, including the emergence of cognitive science and the challenges to traditional notions of reason and logic.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nHofstadter's statement subverts our intuitive understanding of what hinders enlightenment. We often attribute the enemy of enlightenment to abstract concepts like logic or verbal thinking. However, Hofstadter posits that it is a more fundamental aspect: perception itself. This paradox suggests that even our most basic ways of experiencing and interpreting reality can be obstacles to deeper understanding.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nIn applying this insight, modern professionals and creatives can benefit from recognizing the limitations of their own perceptual frameworks. To cultivate greater enlightenment, they should strive to question not just their thoughts or verbal reasoning but also the very way they experience and organize information. By doing so, they may uncover new perspectives and insights that would have otherwise remained hidden behind their habitual modes of perception.",{"id":72,"quote_text":73,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":74,"source":75,"quote_tag":76,"commentary":9},2990271,"The perception of an isomorphism between two known structures is a significant advance in knowledge-and I claim that it is such perceptions of isomorphism which create meanings in the minds of people.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":78,"totalPages":79,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":80},1,7,10]