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Who has led the most significant life?

April 26, 2017LED life SIGNIFICANT

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Who has led the most significant life?

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If I had to name a single human with the most concentrated significance (10) as of 2000, it would be Douglas R. Hofstadter. Dr. Hofstadter’s Copycat is a significant advance in AI, he has sponsored an AI paradigm shift in the right direction, and he has inspired millions through his Pulitzer Prize-winning and amazingly amazingly good book, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”. (For more about Gödel, Escher, Bach, see the Bookshelf. (In association with Amazon.com.)) Runners-up include K. Eric Drexler (11), Douglas Lenat, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Francis Bacon, and Socrates. Advancing contenders: Vernor Vinge, Hans Moravec.