Editing Douglas Hofstadter (section)

== Personal life ==
Hofstadter was married to Carol Ann Brush until her death. They met in Bloomington, and married in Ann Arbor in 1985. They had two children. Carol died in 1993 from the sudden onset of a brain tumor, [[glioblastoma multiforme]], when their children were young. The Carol Ann Brush Hofstadter Memorial Scholarship for Bologna-bound Indiana University students was established in 1996 in her name.<ref>[http://www.indiana.edu/~frithome/alumni/spr96index.html French and Italian] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212193054/http://www.indiana.edu/~frithome/alumni/spr96index.html |date=December 12, 2007 }} Spring 1996, Vol. X</ref> Hofstadter's book ''[[Le Ton beau de Marot]]'' is dedicated to their two children and its dedication reads "To M. & D., living sparks of their Mommy's soul". In 2010, Hofstadter met his second wife, Baofen Lin, in a [[Cha-cha-cha (dance)|cha-cha-cha]] class. They married in 2012 in Bloomington.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hoosiertimes.com/search/?q=hofstadter+baofen|title=Search}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.theryder.com/magazine/feature-articles/falling-in-love-with-panache/ | title = Falling in Love, With Panache | author = Rachael Himsel | date = November 2013 | access-date = 1 September 2023 | publisher = The Ryder}}</ref>

Hofstadter has composed pieces for piano and for piano and voice. He created an audio CD, ''DRH/JJ'', of these compositions performed mostly by pianist Jane Jackson, with a few performed by Brian Jones, Dafna Barenboim, Gitanjali Mathur, and Hofstadter.<ref>''Piano Music by Douglas Hofstadter'' (audio CD), 2000, {{ISBN|1-57677-143-1}}</ref> 

The dedication for ''I Am A Strange Loop'' is: "To my sister Laura, who can understand, and to our sister Molly, who cannot."<ref>Hofstadter, Douglas R. ''I Am a Strange Loop'', p. v. Basic Books, 2007.</ref> Hofstadter explains in the preface that his younger sister Molly never developed the ability to speak or understand language.<ref>Hofstadter, Douglas R. ''I Am a Strange Loop'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2lmjHDS1dgC&dq=%22i%20am%20a%20strange%20loop%22&pg=PR11 p. xi.] Basic Books, 2007. "No one knew what it was, but Molly wasn't able to understand language or to speak (nor is she to this day, and we never did find out why)."</ref> 

As a consequence of his attitudes about consciousness and empathy, Hofstadter became a [[Vegetarianism|vegetarian]] in his teenage years, and has remained primarily so since that time.<ref>{{cite journal
 |url         = https://www.ams.org/notices/200707/tx070700852p.pdf
 |access-date  = December 10, 2007
 |journal     = Notices of the American Mathematical Society
 |volume      = 54
 |issue       = #7
 |page        = 853
 |last        = Gardner
 |first       = Martin
 |author-link  = Martin Gardner
 |date        = August 2007
 |title       = Do Loops Explain Consciousness? Review of ''I Am a Strange Loop''
 |url-status     = live
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080216035138/http://www.ams.org/notices/200707/tx070700852p.pdf
 |archive-date = February 16, 2008
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Hofstadter|first=Douglas|title=I Am a Strange Loop|publisher=Basic Books|year=2007|pages=13–14}}</ref>