Metamagical themas : questing for the essence of mind and pattern

A bestselling collection of brilliant and quirky essays, on subjects ranging from biology to grammar to artificial intelligence, that are unified by one primary concern: the way people perceive and think. 001.pdf......Page 1 002.pdf......Page 4 003.pdf......Page 8 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 01 - On Self-Referential Sentences.doc......Page 15 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 02 - Self-Referential Sentences A Follow-Up.doc......Page 37 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 03 - On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures.doc......Page 61 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 04 - Nomic A Self-Modifying Game Based on Reflexivity in Law.doc......Page 82 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 05 - World Views in Collision.doc......Page 99 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 06 - On Number Numbness.doc......Page 125 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 07 - Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness.doc......Page 146 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 08 - A Person Paper on Purity in Language.doc......Page 169 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 09 - Pattern, Poetry, and Power in the Music of Frédéric Chopin.doc......Page 178 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 10 - Parquet Deformations. A Subtle, Intricate Art Form.doc......Page 199 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 11 - Stuff and Nonsense.doc......Page 222 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 12 - Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity.doc......Page 241 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 13 - Metafont, Metamathematics and Metaphysics.doc......Page 269 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 14 - Magic Cubology.doc......Page 306 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 15 - On Crossing the Rubicon.doc......Page 336 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 16 - Mathematical Chaos and Strange Attractors.doc......Page 371 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 17 - Lisp Atoms and Lists.doc......Page 403 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 18 - Lisp Lists and Recursion.doc......Page 417 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 19 - Lisp Recursion and Generality.doc......Page 432 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 20 - Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.doc......Page 462 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 21 - Review of Alan Turing. The Enigma.doc......Page 485 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 22 - A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test.doc......Page 496 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 23 - On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity.doc......Page 530 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 24 - Analogies and Roles in Human and Machine Thinking.doc......Page 551 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 25 - Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium.doc......Page 608 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 26 - Waking Up from the Boolean Dream.doc......Page 635 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 27 - The Genetic Code Arbitrary.doc......Page 670 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 28 - Undercut, Flaunt, Pounce, and Mediocrity.doc......Page 701 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 29 - The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Evolution of Cooperation.doc......Page 716 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 30 - Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers.doc......Page 736 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 31 - Irrationality Is the Square Root of All Evil.doc......Page 755 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 32 - The Tale of Happiton.doc......Page 766 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 33 - The Tumult of Inner Voices.doc......Page 780 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 34 - Epilogue.doc......Page 796 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 35 - Bibliography.doc......Page 801 Douglas Hofstadter - Metamagical Themas Chpater 36 - Index.doc......Page 819 toc.pdf......Page 0 Metamagical Themas......Page 2 Toen 'Godel, Escher, Bach' verscheen in 1979 was Hofstadter in een klap wereldberoemd. Het is maar weinigen gegeven zo met taal en kennis te spelen: briljant, erudiet, creatief, humoristisch, en didaktisch van zeer hoog niveau. Dezelfde kwaliteiten bepalen het gezicht van 'Metamagische thema's'. Het is een bundeling van artikelen die in de jaren 1981-1983 in de Scientific American verschenen en die nu met behulp van uitvoerige naschriften tot een geheel verweven zijn. De onderwerpen bestrijken ruwweg hetzelfde brede gebied dat we kennen uit 'Godel, Escher, Bach': kunstmatige intelligentie, creativiteit, muziek, zelfverwijzing, en ook Achilles en de schildpad zijn van de partij. Een intellectuele delicatesse. Bevat register en een uitvoerige bibliografie met toelichting. (NBD|Biblion recensie, Drs. D.G. van der Steen.) Hofstadter's bestselling collection of brilliant and quirky essays has been reissued to coincide with the paperback release of Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. "Reading Metamagical Themas is perhaps the closest thing imaginable to taking a voyage through a mind".--San Francisco Chronicle. 124 line drawings. 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

Hofstadter’s collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.