Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And PatternBasic Books, 4 de ago. de 2008 - 880 páginas Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think. |
Conteúdo
A SelfModifying Game Based on Reflexivity in | |
The Skeptical Inquirer versus the National | |
On Number Numbness | |
Atoms and Lists | |
Lists and Recursion | |
Recursion and Generality | |
Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle and the ManyWorlds Interpretation | |
The Enigma | |
Arbitrary? | |
Psychological Games with | |
The Prisoners Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution | |
Changes in Default Words and Images Engendered by Rising Consciousness | |
a8 A Person Paper on Purity in Language | |
Sparking and Slipping | |
Metafont Metamathematics and Metaphysics Comments on Donald | |
Magic Cubology | |
On Crossing the Rubicon | |
Mathematical Chaos and Strange Attractors | |
Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers Leading Up to a Luring Lottery | |
Irrationality Is the Square Root of All Evil | |
a32 The Tale of Happiton | |
a33 The Tumult of Inner Voices or What is the Meaning of the Word I? | |
Epilogue | |
Acknowledgments | |
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Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern Douglas Hofstadter Prévia não disponível - 1996 |
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Termos e frases comuns
abstract ACHILLES alphabet ambigrams amino acid analogy answer anticodon artificial intelligence atom behavior brain called careenium Chopin cognitive column complex concept course creativity CSICOP Cube cubies Epimenides paradox essence étude example face fact feel Figure function genetic code Gödel happens Helvetica human idea imagine inside kind knobs Knuth language letterforms letters Lisp look machine Magic Magic Cube Martin Gardner mathematical means mechanical METAFONT million mind move Nomic nonsense notion one’s paradox parquet deformations pattern perception perhaps person piece play player Prisoner’s Dilemma problem puzzle Pyraminx quark question readers reason recursive role Rubik’s Rubik’s Cube rules seems selfreference selfreferential sense sentence simply Skeptical Inquirer someone sort structure symbols symmballs there’s things thought TORTOISE tRNA Turing Turing Test turn twiddling twist typefaces visual what’s William Huff words write