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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

Hardcover • 1985 • English

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

By Douglas R Hofstadter

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Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think. 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 th...Show more

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9780465045402

Published year

1985

Language

English

Original title

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

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Hardcover

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