Metamagical themas : questing for the essence of mind and pattern

pt. 1. Snags and snarls

1. On self-referential sentences

2. Self-referential sentences: a follow-up

3. On viral sentences and self-replicating structures

4. Nomic: a self-modifying game based on reflexivity in law. pt. 2. Sense and society

5. World views in collision: the "Skeptical Inquirer" versus the "National Enquirer"

6. On number numbness

7. Changes in default words and images, engendered by rising consciousness

8. A person paper on purity in language. pt. 3. Sparking and slipping

9. Pattern, poetry and power in the music of Frederic Chopin

10. Parquet deformations: a subtle, intricate art form

11. Stuff and nonsense

12. Variations on a theme as the crux of creativity

13. Metafont, metamathematics, and metaphysics. pt. 4. Structure and strangeness

14. Magic cubology

15. On crossing the rubicon

16. Mathematical chaos and strange attractors

17. Lisp: atoms and lists

18. Lisp: Lists and recursion

19. Lisp: recursion and generality

20. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. pt. 5. Spirit and substrate

21. Review of "Alan Turing: The enigma"

22. A coffeehouse conversation on the Turing test

23. On the seeming paradox of mechanizing creativity

24. Analogies and roles in human and machine thinking

25. Who shoves whom around inside the careenium?

26. Waking up from the Boolean dream, or, Subcognition as computation. pt. 6. Selection and stability

27. The genetic code: arbitrary?

28. Undercut, flaunt, pounce, and mediocrity: psychological games with numbers

29. The prisoner's dilemma computer tournaments and the evolution of cooperation. pt. 7. Sanity and survival

30. Dilemmas for supperrational thinkers, leading up to a luring lottery

31. Irrationality is the square root of all evil

32. The tale of Happiton

33. The tumult of inner voices, or, What is the meaning of the word "I"?