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Which cognitive scientist inspired Hofstadter's work on artificial intelligence?
Allen Newell
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Allen Newell was a cognitive scientist who inspired Hofstadter's work on artificial intelligence. Newell and his colleague Herbert Simon developed a theory of human cognition called "symbolic artificial intelligence". This theory states that the mind is a computer that processes information using symbols. Hofstadter was inspired by Newell and Simon's work on artificial intelligence, and he used their theory as a basis for his own work on the mind.
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