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Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter. This book has taught me more about thinking differently than any other.
by widowlark 9y ago
Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter. This book has taught me more about thinking differently than any other.
- radicality 9y agoIsn't that mostly a book of math problems? I've read some of his other books (GEB, The Mind's I, I'm a Strange Loop) - how does it compare to those?
- nemo1618 9y agoIt's a collection of columns that Hofstadter wrote for Scientific American. It explores a lot of topics, but personally the one I found most interesting was "superrationality:" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality
- zem 9y agoit's absolutely the book of his I but copies of to give away. GEB was impressive in it's own way, but a bit too self-indulgent to be fully engaging, and 'le ton beau de marot' is spectacular but pretty narrowly focused. metamagical themas is just plain great in every respect.