
Metamagical Themas
Parquet deformations: patterns of tiles that shift gradually in one dimension

Metamagical Themas
Parquet deformations: patterns of tiles that shift gradually in one dimension

Metamagical Themas, June 1983
The calculus of cooperation is tested through a lottery

Metamagical Themas, May 1983
Computer tournaments of the Prisoner's Dilemma suggest how cooperation evolves

Metamagical Themas, April 1983
In which a discourse on the language Lisp concludes with a gargantuan Italian feast

Metamagical Themas, March 1983
Tripping the light recursive in Lisp, the language of artificial intelligence

Metamagical Themas, February 1983
The pleasures of Lisp: the chosen language of artificial intelligence

Metamagical Themas, January 1983
Virus-like sentences and self-replicating structures

Metamagical Themas, January 1982
Sense makes more sense than nonsense, but nonsense may still have its purposes

Metamagical Themas, November 1982
"Default assumptions" and their effects on writing and thinking

Metamagical Themas, October 1982
Variations on a theme as the essence of imagination

Metamagical Themas, September 1982
Can be inspiration be mechanised?

Metamagical Themas, August 1982
Undercut, Flaunt, Hruska, behavioral evolution and other games of strategy

Metamagical Themas, July 1982
Beyond Rubik's Cube: spheres, pyramids, dodecahedrons and God knows what else

Metamagical Themas, June 1982
About Nomic: a heroic game that explores the reflexivity of the law

Metamagical Themas, May 1982
Number numbness, or why innumeracy may be just as dangerous as illiteracy

Metamagical Themas, April 1982
The music of Frédéric Chopin: startling aural patterns that also startle the eye

Metamagical Themas, March 1982
Is the genetic code an arbitrary one, or would another code work as well?

Metamagical Themas, February 1982
About two kinds of inquiry: "National Enquirer" and "The Skeptical Inquirer"

Metamagical Themas, January 1982
A self-referential column about last January's column about self-reference

Metamagical Themas, November 1981
Strange attractors: mathematical patterns delicately poised between order and chaos

Metamagical Themas, September 1981
How might analogy, the core of human thinking, be understood by computers?

Metamagical Themas, July 1981
Pitfalls of the uncertainty principle and paradoxes of quantum mechanics

Metamagical Themas, June 1981
A coffeehouse conversation on the Turing test to determine if a machine can think

Metamagical Themas, March 1981
The Magic Cube's cubies are twiddled by cubists and solved by cubemeisters