Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

• I Am a Strange Loop
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
• The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul
• Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
• The Paris Review Interviews, I: 16 Celebrated Interviews
• The Dream Machine
• Gödel's Proof
• Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: Thirty Years of Complexity Thinking at the Santa Fe Institute
• Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language