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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter

Table of Contents

Introduction xxii

Section I: Snags and Snarls
1. On Self-Referential Sentences 5
2. Self-Referential Sentences: A Follow-Up 25
3. On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures 49
4. Nomic: A Self-Modifying Game Based on Reflexivity in Law 70

Section II: Sense and Society
5. World Views in Collision: The Skeptical Inquirer versus the National Enquirer 91
6. On Number Numbness 115
7. Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness 136
8. A Person Paper on Purity in Language 159

Section III: Sparking and Slipping
9. Pattern, Poetry, and Power in the Music of Frédéric Chopin 173
10. Parquet Deformations: A Subtle, Intricate Art Form 191
11. Stuff and Nonsense 213
12. Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity 232
13. Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics 260

Section IV: Structure and Strangeness
14. Magic Cubology 301
15. On Crossing the Rubicon 329
16. Mathematical Chaos and Strange Attractors 364
17. Lisp: Atoms and Lists 396
18. Lisp: Lists and Recursion 410
19. Lisp: Recursion and Generality 425
20. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 455

Section V: Spirit and Substrate
21. Review of Alan Turing. The Enigma 483
22. A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test 492
23. On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity 526
24. Analogies and Roles in Human and Machine Thinking 547
25. Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium? 604
26. Waking Up from the Boolean Dream, or, Subcognition as Computation 631

Section VI: Selection and Stability
27. The Genetic Code: Arbitrary? 671
28. Undercut, Flaunt, Pounce, and Mediocrity: Psychological Games with Numbers 700
29. The Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation 715

Section VII: Sanity and Survival
30. Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers, Leading Up to a Luring Lottery 739
31. Irrationality Is the Square Root of All Evil 756
32. The Tale of Happiton 767
33. The Tumult of Inner Voices, or, What is the Meaning of the Word "I"? 781

Epilogue

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