Person/Douglas Hofstadter/Book/85/Metamagical Themas

• Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

  • My Notes

    • gifted this as a kid, read parts of it, but never read it cover to cover.

  • About

    • Essay collection by Person/Douglas Hofstadter, first published in 1985 by Basic Books.
    • Collects his early-1980s Scientific American columns on mind, pattern, language, art, logic, self-reference, analogies, memes, cooperation, and superrationality.
    • Subtitle: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern.

  • Themes

    • Self-reference and recursion
    • Analogy, pattern recognition, and cognition
    • Language, logic, and philosophy of mind
    • Game theory, cooperation, and superrationality

  • Links

    • Wikipedia
    • Hachette Book Group / Basic Books
    • Person/Douglas Hofstadter