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Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
 
 

Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern [Kindle Edition]

Douglas Hofstadter
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A bestselling collection of brilliant and quirky essays, on subjects ranging from biology to grammar to artificial intelligence, that are unified by one primary concern: the way people perceive and think.

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The distinguished mathematician offers meditations on mind, creativity, artificial intelligence, and other tops, fusing humor, hard thought, and analysis and ranging from Rubik's cube to the genetic code.

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Douglas Hofstadter is obsessed with the meaning of meaning and has been thinking about thinking for most of his life. His first book won a Pulitzer Prize, but for those of us who share his obsession with thought, meaning, pattern, and creativity, this one is even better.

The words in this book could be read in a week. The concepts Hofstadter explores will keep your mind busy for months. You will find yourself reading for fifteen minutes, and then thinking and speculating for hours. I have never seen a book that does so much to spark the creativity and curiosity of the reader.

The focus of the book is broad, almost maddeningly so -- Hofstadter jumps from Art to Logic to Science to Pattern with a speed and grace that leaves most people gasping. But as you read it, you will begin to see a common thread -- It is about how people think, and what the fundamental processes of thought and creativity might be, explored through as many manifestations of thought and creativity as Hofstadter can manage. And Hofstadter, lucky for us, can manage quite a lot.

If you are interested in thought and creativity, in mind, soul, and pattern -- if "effing the ineffable" is one of your hobbies, as it is mine -- and you are going to buy one book this decade, then buy this one.

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Better than GEB? 25. Januar 2000
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Perhaps it is sacrilege, or stretching things a bit, but in my view this book tops GEB. Admittedly, I have read GEB several times, so maybe somebody who hasn't read GEB won't get the full benefit of Metamagical Themas. Here are my reasons for my opinion:

1) Hofstadter doesn't spend so much time being cute. Sure, all the jokes in GEB were funny, but they can get old, especially when you're going through the book a second time trying to delve deeper into an idea.

2) The variety of topics. Everything from Chopin to self reference to nuclear proliferation. Yet as the title might suggest, a common thread runs through all the topics. Hofstadter emphasizes this with his addendums to the original articles; he also has several new essays.

3) A great summary of Hofstadter's views on AI. If you read GEB and weren't really sure what he's about, reading the new Achilles and Tortoise dialogue, "Who shoves whom around in the careenium?", will clear things up. It did for me. Also, there's an article on Hofstadter's criticisms of the approaches that have been taken by AI experts (up to 1985, when the book was written).

In summary, GEB was an amazing work that was diluted to make it more palatable to non-technical people. Metamagical Themas is Hofstadter at full strength.

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This is a great book by Hofstadter.It encompasses many topics ranging from viral sentences to nuclear annihilation.His explanations are second only to Asimov.Definitely must be read.
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I Wouldn't say it's better than GEB...
But it's worth the money just for the chapter on "Nomic."

Once you've read that bit, you can bring any fundamentalist or strict constructionist legalist to the mat.

Veröffentlicht am 15. Juli 2000 von J. Kowalski
Many, many, many topics
In this collection of articles from his days as a regular with "Scientific American," Hoftstadter covers everything from self-referential statements (like this one), the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Hofstadter did it again!
Even if you haven't read Godel, Escher, Bach, you should definitely read this book. As with GEB, there's something here for everyone: music, math, logic, and so much more. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. April 1999 von Bizzie B. (loosetooth@aol.com)
More accesible than 'Godel Escher Bach' review by P. Hancock
Having been turned onto this amazing author by 'GEB', I approached it with some caution. GEB was like going to the cinema to see Arnie Schwartzenegger and wandering into a complex... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. April 1998 von Voracious reader
This is a review of Metamagical Themas.
This is the first sentence in a review of Metamagical Themas. This is the second sentence, pointing out that in the context of a book review, the form of self-reference is almost... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. April 1997 veröffentlicht
Douglas delights again with this romp through reality.
In true Hofstaderian form, this book is a fascinating
journey through the world of self-reference. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. November 1996 veröffentlicht
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