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Notes on the Cover: A Spontaneous Essay on Whirly Art and Creativity |
Introduction |
Snags and Snarls / Section 1: |
On Self-Referential Sentences January, 1981 / 1: |
Self-Referential Sentences: A Follow-Up January, 1982 / 2: |
On VIral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures / 3: |
Nomic: A Self-Modifying Game Based on Reflexivity in Law June, 1982 / 4: |
Sense and Society / Section II: |
World VIews in Collision: the Skeptical Inquirer Versus the National Enquirer / 5: |
On Number Numbness May, 1982 / 6: |
Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness / 7: |
A Person Paper on Purity in Language / 8: |
Sparking and Slipping / Section III: |
Pattern, Poetry, and Power in the Music of Frédéric Chopin April, 1982 / 9: |
Parquet Deformations: A Subtle, Intricate Art Form / 10: |
Stuff and Nonsense / 11: |
Variations on A Theme as the Crux of Creativity / 12: |
Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics: Comments on Donald Knuth's Article "The Concept of A Meta-Font" / 13: |
Structure and Strangeness / Section IV: |
Magic Cubology / 14: |
On Crossing the Rubicon / 15: |
Mathematical Chaos and Strange Attractors November, 1981 / 16: |
Lisp: Atoms and LIsts / 17: |
Lisp: LIsts and Recursion March, 1983 / 18: |
Lisp: Recursion and Generality April, 1983 / 19: |
Heisenbe 's Uncertainty Principle and the Many-Worlds Interpretationof Quantum Mechanics / 20: |
Spirit and Substrate / Section V: |
Review of Alan Turing: the Enigma November, 1983 / 21: |
A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test May, 1981 / 22: |
On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity September, 1982 / 23: |
Analogies and Roles in Human and Machine Thinking September, 1981 / 24: |
Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium? Or, What Is the Meaning of the Word "I"? March, 1981 / 25: |
Waking Up from the Boolean Dream, Or, Subcognition as Computation July, 1982 / 26: |
Selection and Stability / Section VI: |
The Genetic Code: Arbitrary? March, 1982 / 27: |
Undercut, Flaunt, Pounce, and Mediocrity. Psychological Games with Numbers August, 1982 / 28: |
The Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation May, 1983 / 29: |
Sanity and Survival / Section VII: |
Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers, Leading Up to A Luring Lottery June, 1983 / 30: |
Irrationality Is the Square Root of All Evil September, 1983 / 31: |
The Tale of Happiton June, 1983 / 32: |
The Tumult of Inner Voices, Or, What Is the Meaning of the Word "I"? / 33: |
Epilogue |
Bibliography |
Acknowledgments |
Index |
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