Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

Douglas R. Hofstadter is a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. He is also the author of The Mind's I (with Daniel Dennett), Metamagical Themas, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton beau de Marot, a verse translation of Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, I Am a Strange Loop, Translator Trader, and Surfaces and Essences (with Emmanuel Sander).