Metamagical Themas
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Metamagical Themas is a collection of Douglas Hofstadter’s essays exploring themes in mathematics, computer science, cognition, and self-reference, many originally published in his Scientific American column.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Metamagical Themas canonical | 3 |
| Metamagical Themas column | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
essay collection
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Douglas Hofstadter ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Metamagical Themas
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Metamagical Themas column
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| columnOriginallyPublishedIn | Scientific American ⓘ |
| containsTheme |
analogy-making
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complex systems ⓘ consciousness ⓘ formal systems ⓘ self-referential systems ⓘ strange loops ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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United States
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| genre |
cognitive science literature
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popular science ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
general readers interested in science
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readers of Scientific American ⓘ |
| hasForm |
column collection
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essay ⓘ |
| hasNotableEssayOn |
Rubik's Cube
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Rubik’s Cube
artificial intelligence research ⓘ creativity ⓘ metaphor ⓘ political systems ⓘ game theory ⓘ
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prisoner’s dilemma
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| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of self-reference in cognition
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interdisciplinary treatment of mind and machines ⓘ |
| predecessorColumn | Mathematical Games ⓘ |
| predecessorColumnAuthor | Martin Gardner ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| publisher | Basic Books ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Gödel, Escher, Bach
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I Am a Strange Loop ⓘ |
| subject |
artificial intelligence
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cognition ⓘ computer science ⓘ linguistics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ metamathematics ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ puzzles ⓘ recreational mathematics ⓘ self-reference ⓘ |
| titleWordplayOn | Mathematical Games ⓘ |
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Douglas Hofstadter
this entity surface form:
Metamagical Themas column