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- catalog abstract "Includes articles, many of which originally appeared in Scientific American, on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange attractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics.".
- catalog contributor b313057.
- catalog created "c1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "c1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1985.".
- catalog description "Includes articles, many of which originally appeared in Scientific American, on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange attractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 802-819) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Snags and snarls -- 1. On self-referential sentences -- 2. Self-referential sentences: a follow-up -- 3. On viral sentences and self-replicating structures -- 4. Nomic: a self-modifying game based on reflexivity in law.".
- catalog description "pt. 2. Sense and society -- 5. World views in collision: the "Skeptical Inquirer" versus the "National Enquirer" -- 6. On number numbness -- 7. Changes in default words and images, engendered by rising consciousness -- 8. A person paper on purity in language.".
- catalog description "pt. 3. Sparking and slipping -- 9. Pattern, poetry and power in the music of Frederic Chopin -- 10. Parquet deformations: a subtle, intricate art form -- 11. Stuff and nonsense -- 12. Variations on a theme as the crux of creativity -- 13. Metafont, metamathematics, and metaphysics.".
- catalog description "pt. 4. Structure and strangeness -- 14. Magic cubology -- 15. On crossing the rubicon -- 16. Mathematical chaos and strange attractors -- 17. Lisp: atoms and lists -- 18. Lisp: Lists and recursion -- 19. Lisp: recursion and generality -- 20. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.".
- catalog description "pt. 5. Spirit and substrate -- 21. Review of "Alan Turing: The enigma" -- 22. A coffeehouse conversation on the Turing test -- 23. On the seeming paradox of mechanizing creativity -- 24. Analogies and roles in human and machine thinking -- 25. Who shoves whom around inside the careenium? -- 26. Waking up from the Boolean dream, or, Subcognition as computation.".
- catalog description "pt. 6. Selection and stability -- 27. The genetic code: arbitrary? -- 28. Undercut, flaunt, pounce, and mediocrity: psychological games with numbers -- 29. The prisoner's dilemma computer tournaments and the evolution of cooperation.".
- catalog description "pt. 7. Sanity and survival -- 30. Dilemmas for supperrational thinkers, leading up to a luring lottery -- 31. Irrationality is the square root of all evil -- 32. The tale of Happiton -- 33. The tumult of inner voices, or, What is the meaning of the word "I"?".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 852 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Metamagical themas.".
- catalog identifier "0465045405 :".
- catalog identifier "0465045669 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Metamagical themas.".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "c1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
- catalog relation "Metamagical themas.".
- catalog subject "Amusements.".
- catalog subject "Artificial intelligence.".
- catalog subject "Creativity.".
- catalog subject "Intellect.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics.".
- catalog subject "Mental Processes.".
- catalog subject "Metamathematics.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Q335 .H63 1985".
- catalog subject "QA 9.8 H713m 1985".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Self (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Snags and snarls -- 1. On self-referential sentences -- 2. Self-referential sentences: a follow-up -- 3. On viral sentences and self-replicating structures -- 4. Nomic: a self-modifying game based on reflexivity in law.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 2. Sense and society -- 5. World views in collision: the "Skeptical Inquirer" versus the "National Enquirer" -- 6. On number numbness -- 7. Changes in default words and images, engendered by rising consciousness -- 8. A person paper on purity in language.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 3. Sparking and slipping -- 9. Pattern, poetry and power in the music of Frederic Chopin -- 10. Parquet deformations: a subtle, intricate art form -- 11. Stuff and nonsense -- 12. Variations on a theme as the crux of creativity -- 13. Metafont, metamathematics, and metaphysics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 4. Structure and strangeness -- 14. Magic cubology -- 15. On crossing the rubicon -- 16. Mathematical chaos and strange attractors -- 17. Lisp: atoms and lists -- 18. Lisp: Lists and recursion -- 19. Lisp: recursion and generality -- 20. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 5. Spirit and substrate -- 21. Review of "Alan Turing: The enigma" -- 22. A coffeehouse conversation on the Turing test -- 23. On the seeming paradox of mechanizing creativity -- 24. Analogies and roles in human and machine thinking -- 25. Who shoves whom around inside the careenium? -- 26. Waking up from the Boolean dream, or, Subcognition as computation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 6. Selection and stability -- 27. The genetic code: arbitrary? -- 28. Undercut, flaunt, pounce, and mediocrity: psychological games with numbers -- 29. The prisoner's dilemma computer tournaments and the evolution of cooperation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 7. Sanity and survival -- 30. Dilemmas for supperrational thinkers, leading up to a luring lottery -- 31. Irrationality is the square root of all evil -- 32. The tale of Happiton -- 33. The tumult of inner voices, or, What is the meaning of the word "I"?".
- catalog title "Metamagical themas : questing for the essence of mind and pattern / Douglas R. Hofstadter.".
- catalog type "text".