Douglas Hofstadter Quotes About Soul

• If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Qualms About, Evil, Soul

• Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  War, Believe, Soul

• You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  People, Soul, Brain

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