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	Metamagical Themas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles written for Scientific American during the early 1980s by Douglas Hofstadter, and published together as a book in 1985 by Basic Books (ISBN 0465045669).
		The subject matter of the articles is loosely woven about themes in philosophy, creativity, artificial intelligence and important social issues.
		Metamagical Themas was also published in French, under the title Ma Themagie (InterEditions, 1988), the translators being Jean-Baptiste Berthelin, Jean-Luc Bonnetain, and Lise Rosenbaum.
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		Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles written for Scientific Metamagical Themas was also published in French, under the title Ma Themas
		Metamagical themas: Questing for the essence of mind and pattern Hofstadter, DR (1985) London: Penguin.
		Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern.
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		The orchestration creates a deliberate ambiguity concerning the role of each performer in terms of principal voice vs. accompaniment, providing an environment of constantly shifting focus upon each of the three performers who often perform as soloists simultaneously.
		Metamagical Themas for flute, violin, cello, and piano (2004)
		The impetus of Metamagical Themas is one of multiple processes of accumulation and subsequent dissolution of materials.
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		Metamagical Themas: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Metamagical Themas is an eclectic collection of articles written for Scientific American Scientific American quick summary:
		Metamagical Themas was also published in French French language quick summary:
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		WHAT IS IT: This is an example of a parquet deformation, the subject of Douglas Hofstadter's July 1983 Metamagical Themas column in Scientific American.
		The idea behind a parquet deformation is to take a regular tiling of the plane and deform it gradually: at any point, you have a regular tiling, but at each point, it is slightly different.
		square-dance.ps is an example of a parquet deformation, the subject of Douglas Hofstadter's July 1983 Metamagical Themas column in Scientific American.
	web.mit.edu /PostScript/obfuscated-1993/square-dance.ANSWER (482 words)

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		Hofstadter, Douglas R. Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern Publisher: N.Y., Bantam, 1986.
		Hofstadter, Douglas R Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern Publisher: 1985 New York Basic Books.
		Partly the answer is that life itself is a mixture of things of many sorts, little and big, light and serious, frivolous and formidable, and Metamagical Themas reflects that complexity.
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		Description: Hofstadter's bestselling collection of brilliant and quirky essays has been reissued to coincide with the paperback release of Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.
		"Reading Metamagical Themas is perhaps the closest thing imaginable to taking a voyage through a mind."--San Francisco Chronicle.
		From the Publisher: 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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	Entrepreneurship: Life Long Learning » Blog Archive » Metamagical Themas
		I’m reading Metamagical Themas, a collection of articles written by Douglas Hofstadter for Scientific american in the early 80s when I was just a toddler.
		There are so many things that I want people to be able to learn more about from my blog with out having to explain them myself.
		This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 at 1:48 am and is filed under Academia, Book Reviews.
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		That columnist was Douglas Hofstadter, who brought the same skill at sharing his enthusiam for his topic that created the amazing, mind shattering 'Godel, Escher, Bach'.
		His column, that occupied the same place as "Mathemetical Games", was called "Metamagical Themas" (looking closely at those two names will tell you a lot about Douglas Hofstadter) and lasted for 13 issues.
		This book is a compilation of those columns, each with a new endnote by Hofstadter and some letters received by the magazine and his reply.
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	Open Source Thoughts
		I would also like to recommend Metamagical Themas for DRH's insight on sexism in language.
		He includes an incredible satire on sexist language, wherein he replaces all uses of man with white.
		10:23:20 AM I have just started reading an old book, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, by a fascinating author, Douglas R. Hofstadter.
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		With profound insight and an irrepressible sense of fun, he explores such subjects as artificial intelligence; sexist language in Chinese; experiments with the Prisoner's Dilemma; genetic evolution and its software counterpart; beautiful mathematical shapes known as "strange attractors"; nuclear war; and even National Enquirer hoaxes.
		Balanced between art and science, magic and logic, humor and rigor, Metamagical Themas (a rearrangement of the letters in "mathematical games") probes the deepest paradoxes and mysteries of the human mind and heart.
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		Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1983a) 'Metamagical Themas: Virus-like and self-replicating structures', Scientific American, 248(1), January, pp.
		Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1983b) 'Metamagical Themas: Computer Tournaments of the Prisoner's Dilemma Suggest How Co-operation Evolves', Scientific American, 248(5), May, pp.
		Gu:th, Werner, Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1983c) 'Metamagical Themas: The Calculus of Co-operation is Tested Through a Lottery', Scientific American, 248(6), June, pp.
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	Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		It also deals with the subject of "self", though it approaches it from a different angle.
		Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern is a collection of Hofstadter's monthly "Metamagical Themas" column in Scientific American during the early '80s.
		I am referring, of course, to Hofstadter's own books - The Mind's I and Metamagical Themas, discussed above; and Le Ton beau de Marot, also reviewed in The Bookshelf.
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		Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, a fascinating book by computer scientist Douglas R. Hofstadter.
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	Self-reference and apparent self-reference
		Following are a few gems from Metamagical Themas.
		Paradoxes to puzzle and delight, Freeman & Co, NY, 1982
		Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas, Basic Books, Inc., 1985, Chapter 16.
	www.cut-the-knot.org /selfreference/index.shtml (1815 words)

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