Douglas Hofstadter is a professor, cognitive scientist, and author whose work addresses a number of fields from computer science to consciousness. And he'd like to remind you that the Jeopardy ...

Almost 50 years ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter predicted that a butterfly would spread its wings in the quantum world. Under the right conditions, tiny electrons in a quantum system ...

Known as Hofstadter’s butterfly, this intricate design emerges from the behavior of electrons in certain conditions. Originally theorized in 1976 by physicist Douglas Hofstadter, the pattern had ...