Douglas Hofstadter

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1. Daniel C. Dennett

   Author of Consciousness Explained, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
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2. Douglas Hofstadter

   Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

3. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable

4. Richard Feynman

   Author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), What Do You Care What Other People Think?, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

5. Steven Pinker

   Author of The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
   All: (1 member)

6. Roger Penrose

   Author of The Emperor's New Mind, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
   All: (2 members)

7. James Gleick

   Author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

8. Simon Singh

   Author of The Code Book, Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

9. Marvin Minsky

   Author of Society of Mind, The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
   All: (1 member)

10. Edwin A. Abbott

    Author of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
    All: (1 member)

11. Stephen Wolfram

    Author of A New Kind of Science

12. Brian Greene

    Author of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, The Fabric of the Cosmos

13. Harold Abelson

    Author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

14. Donald E. Knuth

    Author of The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1 - Fundamental Algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 2 - Seminumerical Algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3 - Sorting and Searching

15. Thomas S. Kuhn

    Author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

16. Stephen Hawking

    Author of A Brief History of Time
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17. Edward R. Tufte

    Author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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18. Frederick P. Brooks

    Author of The Mythical Man-Month

19. Ernest Nagel

    Author of Gödel’s Proof

20. Neal Stephenson

    Author of Cryptonomicon