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Metamagical Themas

Douglas R. Hofstadter

  • 852 pages · about 14 hours
  • First published 1985
  • 15 editions
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1 About this book

Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles that Douglas Hofstadter wrote for the popular science magazine Scientific American during the early 1980s. The anthology was published in 1985 by Basic Books.

The volume is substantial in size and contains extensive notes concerning responses to the articles and other information relevant to their content. (One of the notes—page 65—suggested memetics for the study of memes.)

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and a long read.

  • Self
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Mathematics
  • Science, philosophy
  • Intellect
  • Creativity

2 About Douglas R. Hofstadter

Born 1945

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born 15 February 1945) is an American cognitive scientist and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, ambigrams, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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