When you’re not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish.

Douglas R. Hofstadter (b. 1945) American academic, cognitive scientist, author
“Understanding understanding,” Scientific American (Jan 1981)
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Frequently misattributed to his most famous book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979). Reprinted in his  <i>Metamagical Themas</i>, ch. 1 "On Self-Referential Sentences" (1985).


 
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