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Metamagical Themas
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern | Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Includes articles, many of which originally appeared in Scientific American, on memes, innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, strange attractors, Lisp, Heisenburg's uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics, Alan Turing, sphexishness, Prisoner's dilemma, and other topics.
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GoneFishing

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Hobbinol Sounds like the division where I work. 7y
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Master class in, the handling/perception of language, by Douglas Hofstadter, sample this, "The understanding of such sentences involves a mixture of deriving the content and yet retaining the form in mind, letting qualities of the form conjure up flavors and enhance the meaning with a halo of not-quite-conscious pseudo-meanings, connotations, flavors, that flicker in the mind, not quite in reach, not quite out of reach".

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San Francisco Chronicle: "The closest thing imaginable to taking a voyage through the mind". Me: Seems like it's time for a trip!