6 edition of Metamagical Themas found in the catalog.
Published
January 1995
by Penguin Putnam~trade
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Written in English
The Physical Object | |
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Format | Hardcover |
Number of Pages | 880 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL9301945M |
ISBN 10 | 0140085343 |
ISBN 10 | 9780140085341 |
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― Douglas R. Hofstadter, quote from Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern “Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!” “Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.”. Read "Metamagical Themas Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern" by Douglas Hofstadter available from Rakuten Kobo. Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think Brand: Basic Books.
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Metamagical Themas is one such book. The book is a great philosophical work that spans many different subject areas, from language to artificial intelligence to Rubik’s cubes. It is an accumulation of Hofstadter’s columns written for Scientific American, along with a few lectures he gave on other occasions.