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Tables of Contents for Metamagical Themas
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Long Contents
ix
List of Illustrations
xiii
Notes on the Cover
xviii
Introduction
xxii
Section I: Snags and Snarls
On Self-Referential Sentences
5
20
Self-Referential Sentences: A Follow-Up
25
24
On Viral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures
49
21
Nomic: A Self-Modifying Game Based on Reflexivity in Law
70
21
Section II: Sense and Society
World Views in Collision: The Skeptical Inquirer versus the National Enquirer
91
24
On Number Numbness
115
21
Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness
136
23
A Person Paper on Purity in Language
159
14
Section III: Sparking and Slipping
Pattern, Poetry, and Power in the Music of Frederic Chopin
173
18
Parquet Deformations: A Subtle, Intricate Art Form
191
22
Stuff and Nonsense
213
19
Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity
232
28
Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics
260
41
Section IV: Structure and Strangeness
Magic Cubology
301
28
On Crossing the Rubicon
329
35
Mathematical Chaos and Strange Attractors
364
32
Lisp: Atoms and Lists
396
14
Lisp: Lists and Recursion
410
15
Lisp: Recursion and Generality
425
30
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
455
28
Section V: Spirit and Substrate
Review of Alan Turing: The Enigma
483
9
A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test
492
34
On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity
526
21
Analogies and Roles in Human and Machine Thinking
547
57
Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium?
604
27
Waking Up from the Boolean Dream, or, Subcognition as Computation
631
40
Section VI: Selection and Stability
The Genetic Code: Arbitrary?
671
29
Undercut, Flaunt, Pounce, and Mediocrity: Psychological Games with Numbers
700
15
The Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation
715
24
Section VII: Sanity and Survival
Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers, Leading Up to a Luring Lottery
739
17
Irrationality Is the Square Root of All Evil
756
11
The Tale of Happiton
767
14
The Tumult of Inner Voices, or, What is the Meaning of the Word ``I''?
781
16
Epilogue
797
5
Bibliography
802
19
Acknowledgments
821
3
Index
824