Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
Hofstadter’s collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
Hofstadter’s collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780465045662 (0465045669)
ASIN: 465045669
Publish date: April 5th 1996
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 852
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Humanities,
Language,
Computer Science,
Science,
Popular Science,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Mathematics
An excellent follow up to his Pulitzer winning "Goedel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid" Written in an essay format Dr Hofstadter delves into everything from Rubik's cube to short biographies of science greats - and all these wide ranging essays are organized into a coherent, intricately orga...
I lugged this massive book around with me for awhile during my senior year of high school. I remember finding it rambling but brilliant. I was fascinated by his essays on typography and on the subtle sexism of English honorifics like "Mrs" and "Miss".
The thing I loved about this one is the playfulness involved. Sometimes I thought my head was going to explode from the weird wonderfulness of the ideas. The two chapters on self-referential sentences were absolutely delightful. Some I recall: "It goes without saying that""Let us make a new conve...
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