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Be prepared for extensive and expansive discourse regarding calligraphy, typography and the design of fonts. That said, Hofstadter is a wonderfully imaginative and entertaining writer, and there were some themes underlying the whole book which anybody familiar with Hofstadter will be able to guess, such as the nature of intelligence and consciousness and the concept of self-reference. Fine in Very Good DJ. The discussion involves Prisoner's Dilemma, statistics, and cognitive science topics addressed throughout the book 3. Callaghan Books South Published: Books by Douglas R.

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Snags and Snarls Chapter 1: Douglas grew up on the campus of St Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity.

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Your meterage may very. Of the 33 chapters, only one deeply mathematical section passed into the zone of inscrutability for me. Obviously, I have barely touched on the magic that appears between these covers. Has wear to the cover and pages. Surely my best part of the book is the last pages where he tackled game theoretical problems and experiments. Some of the articles contain dated references, such as early versions of what would later become email and instant messaging along with an essay on Rubik's cube.

Maybe it would have been better to read all these articles serialized themaa the magazine, without all the commentary and post post post scriptums.

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

An inquiry into why so many people are taken in by publications that give much play to "paranormal" or "psi" phenomena, and a report on an unusual journal that combats the psi panderers. Near fine wtih remainder stamp on bottom page fine edges, light fading to bottom edge of cloth cover in a fine dustwrapper. Basic Books, New York: In he returned to Bloomington as "College of Arts and Sciences Professor" in both Cognitive Science and Computer Science, and also was appointed Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Psychology, but he states metamagucal his involvement with most of these departments is nominal.

This book is just amazing, I meatmagical it even more than the mystical Godel Escher Bach. The best passage ever, is the one that I Another book added to my personal favorite! Dec 01, George Marshall rated it liked it. Nov 27, Jerzy rated it liked it. Sometimes I thought my head was going to explode from the weird wonderfulness of the ideas. Aug 27, Jenna Fearon rated it it was amazing.

Inhe moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he was hired as a professor of psychology and was also appointed to the Walgreen Chair for the Study of Human Understanding.

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Metamagical Themas

Along the way there is material on the Rubik's cube, on the nuclear arms war, on typefaces, on the Lisp programming language, and on game theory. No International ShippingGood condition.

Many other topics are also mentioned, all in Hofstadter's usual easy, approachable style. Used; Very Good Edition: These days, Tbemas would basically call it a nicer version of Discover again, not to denigrate that magazine, but it certainly lacks depth in most cases.

Individual articles overlap significantly in theme. The Skeptical Inquirer versus the National Enquirer. Fine in Very Good DJ. Bumped corners, and light creasing of the back cover otherwise metamsgical fine tight clean copy.

If I ever read this book again, it will have to be on Kindle because my 30 plus year old paperback has fallen apart into a stack of pages during this last reading: Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, mstamagical copy.

Lists with This Book. Oct 07, Neil rated it it was amazing.

I read it 2 or 3 more times but not in the past decade. Not only is Metamagical Themas a great source and resource in itself, but it will lead you to other fascinating books--to wit books that deal not only with science but with literature and music.