{"product_id":"metamagical-themas-9780465045662","title":"Metamagical Themas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eHofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Introduction  Snags and Snarls * On Self-Referential Sentences  * Self-Referential Sentences: A Follow-Up  * On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures  * Nomic: A Self-Modifying Game Based on Reflexivity in Law   Sense and Society * World Views in Collision: The Skeptical Inquirer versus the National Enquirer  * On Number Numbness  * Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness  * A Person Paper on Purity in Language   Sparking and Slipping * Pattern, Poetry, and Power in the Music of Frdric Chopin  * Parquet Deformations: A Subtle, Intricate Art Form  * Stuff and Nonsense  * Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity  * Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics   Structure and Strangeness * Magic Cubology  * On Crossing the Rubicon  * Mathematical Chaos and Strange Attractors  * Lisp: Atoms and Lists  * Lisp: Lists and Recursion  * Lisp: Recursion and Generality  * Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics   Spirit and Substrate * Review of Alan Turing: The Enigma  * A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test  * On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity  * Analogies and Roles in Human and Machine Thinking  * Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium?  * Waking Up from the Boolean Dream, or Subcognition as Computation   Selection and Stability * The Genetic Code: Arbitrary?  * Undercut, Flaunt, Pounce, and Mediocrity: Psychological Games with Numbers  * The Prisoners Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation   Sanity and Survival * Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers, Leading Up to a Luring Lottery  * Irrationality Is the Square Root of All Evil  * The Tale of Happiton  * The Tumult of Inner Voices, or, What is the Meaning of the Word I?   * Epilogue","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402243252567,"sku":"9780465045662","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780465045662.jpg?v=1730479820","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/metamagical-themas-9780465045662","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}