[jacoblyles]

From what I remember of his work, I don't care for Hofstatder's style. He describes a bunch of mysterious things, including consciousness, and winks suggestively that they all could have something to do with each other. You feel like you have learned something, but you really haven't. His corpus consists of "mysterious answers to mysterious questions" (http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_...). It doesn't actually enhance our understanding of the world.