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Let me say at once that i am not replacing martin gardner. Hofstadter i never expected to be writing a col umn for scientific american. New scientist i am a strange loop is thoughtful, amusing and infectiously enthusiastic. Doug hofstadter 1945 is a thinker, smarter than most people and way smarter than i, who writes engagingly on logic, language, fractals, fugues and anything else that captures his attention. The prisoners dilemma, computer tournaments and the evolution of cooperation may, 1983 life is filled with paradoxes and dilemmas. Metamagical themas see bottom il lustration on page 25. Your curiosity very nearly this pdf will be solved sooner in the same way as starting to read. A selfmodifying game based on reflexivity in law section ii. Hofstadter i am a strange loop douglas hofstadter a u t h o r o f godel, escher, bach brilliant the most gripping 400 pages ive read in years. The anthology was published in 1985 by basic books.
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