Presenter Full Name
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Dr. Douglas Hofstadter
Institution
:
Indiana University and Stanford University
Year & Semester
:
2000 Spring
Presentation Date
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February 14, 2000
Dr. Douglas Hofstadter of Indiana University and Stanford University will show how the cognitive mechanism of borrowing of previous ideas in physics (and often blending two or more ideas in what seems to be an utterly incoherent fashion) has repeatedly enabled physicists to come up with radically new and deeply right insights and thus to leapfrog ahead at amazing speeds.