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Metamagical Themas
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Metamagical Themas

Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

by Douglas Hofstadter

Recommended by Patrick Collison and Joe Gadway

Recommended by Patrick Collison and Joe Gadway

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Philosophy, Science, and Social Sciences.

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

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Philosophy, Science, and Social Sciences.

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Patrick Collison

Patrick Collison

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe

I flagged a few books that I thought were particularly great in green. | Metamagical Themas Douglas Hofstadter A collection of Scientific American columns from the early 1980s. A massive book by a professor of Human Understanding. Creativity and puzzles and paradoxes and logic and Artificial Intelligence,, all jumbled together.
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