Cover of Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

by Douglas R. Hofstadter · 1985

+ Want to read

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

Subject
sciencescienceMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of thiseducationeducationMore like thisLess of this
Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Themes
technologytechnologyMore like thisLess of thisartificial intelligenceartificial intelligenceMore like thisLess of thisphilosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thismusicmusicMore like thisLess of thisartartMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 880 pages
Form
essaysessaysMore like thisLess of this

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite Rudy Rucker · 1981 Shares science, philosophy, math
  2. Gödel's Proof Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman · 1958 Shares science, philosophy, mathematics
  3. Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge · 1988 Shares philosophy, science, nonfiction
  4. Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being George Lakoff, Rafael Nunez · 2000 Shares philosophy, science, math
See more recommendations →

“People who read Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern tend to reach for these next.”

  1. The Society of Mind Marvin Minsky · 1985
  2. Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness Roger Penrose · 1994
  3. A New Kind of Science Stephen Wolfram · 1997
  4. The World of Mathematics James Roy Newman · 1956

“If you want more of the same (science about technology), start with these.”

  1. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Daniel C. Dennett · 1995
  2. What Darwin Got Wrong Jerry A. Fodor, Massimo Piattelli Palmarini · 2010
  3. The Meaning of Science Tim Lewens · 2015
  4. The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare Henri Poincare · 1964

“If it was the philosophy that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy Rudy Rucker · 2005
  2. The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us Noson S. Yanofsky · 2013
  3. The Arithmetic of Life and Death George Shaffner · 1999
  4. Principia Mathematica to '56 Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead · 1962

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics J.B. Jackson · 1980
  2. Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics Peter Kreeft · 1988
  3. Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop · 2007
  4. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing · 2008

Report a problem