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Hofstadter wrote about this in a column for Scientific American. The article appears in his collection, "Metamagical Themas," and Google Books has most of it he
by jsomers 16y ago
Hofstadter wrote about this in a column for Scientific American. The article appears in his collection, "Metamagical Themas," and Google Books has most of it here: http://books.google.com/books?id=o8jzWF7rD6oC&dq=metamagical+themas&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=TQ7TS5ryBoKC8gaRx625Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=nomic&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=o8jzWF7rD6oC&dq=metamag....
- Vivtek 16y agoPartly because Peter Suber worked with Hofstadter during a sabbatical year, and I believe developed Nomic during that time (or at least did some of the preliminary talking about it). It's a very Hofstadterian game.
- Vivtek 16y agoPeter Suber just wrote to me correcting my misapprehension of causality: I published Nomic in 1982, about seven years before my sabbatical in Hofstadter's lab. But I published it in Hofstadter's column in Scientific American. We got to know one another through Nomic, and it led to the sabbatical at his lab, not the other way around. There's nothing confidential in this; please feel free to post it if you think it would interest others.