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• Synopsis(p. vi)
• Long Contents(p. ix)
• Notes on the Cover: A Spontaneous Essay on Whirly Art and Creativity(p. xviii)
• Introduction(p. xxii)
• Section 1 Snags and Snarls(p. 1)
• 1 On Self-Referential Sentences January, 1981(p. 5)
• 2 Self-Referential Sentences: A Follow-Up January, 1982(p. 25)
• 3 On VIral Sentences and Self-Replicating Structures(p. 49)
• 4 Nomic: A Self-Modifying Game Based on Reflexivity in Law June, 1982(p. 70)
• Section II Sense and Society(p. 87)
• 5 World VIews in Collision: the Skeptical Inquirer Versus the National Enquirer(p. 91)
• 6 On Number Numbness May, 1982(p. 115)
• 7 Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness(p. 136)
• 8 A Person Paper on Purity in Language(p. 159)
• Section III Sparking and Slipping(p. 169)
• 9 Pattern, Poetry, and Power in the Music of Frédéric Chopin April, 1982(p. 173)
• 10 Parquet Deformations: A Subtle, Intricate Art Form(p. 191)
• 11 Stuff and Nonsense(p. 213)
• 12 Variations on A Theme as the Crux of Creativity(p. 232)
• 13 Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics: Comments on Donald Knuth's Article "The Concept of A Meta-Font"(p. 260)
• Section IV Structure and Strangeness(p. 297)
• 14 Magic Cubology(p. 301)
• 15 On Crossing the Rubicon(p. 329)
• 16 Mathematical Chaos and Strange Attractors November, 1981(p. 364)
• 17 Lisp: Atoms and LIsts(p. 396)
• 18 Lisp: LIsts and Recursion March, 1983(p. 410)
• 19 Lisp: Recursion and Generality April, 1983(p. 425)
• 20 Heisenbe 's Uncertainty Principle and the Many-Worlds Interpretationof Quantum Mechanics(p. 455)
• Section V Spirit and Substrate(p. 479)
• 21 Review of Alan Turing: the Enigma November, 1983(p. 483)
• 22 A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test May, 1981(p. 492)
• 23 On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity September, 1982(p. 526)
• 24 Analogies and Roles in Human and Machine Thinking September, 1981(p. 547)
• 25 Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium? Or, What Is the Meaning of the Word "I"? March, 1981(p. 604)
• 26 Waking Up from the Boolean Dream, Or, Subcognition as Computation July, 1982(p. 631)
• Section VI Selection and Stability(p. 667)
• 27 The Genetic Code: Arbitrary? March, 1982(p. 671)
• 28 Undercut, Flaunt, Pounce, and Mediocrity. Psychological Games with Numbers August, 1982(p. 700)
• 29 The Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation May, 1983(p. 715)
• Section VII Sanity and Survival(p. 735)
• 30 Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers, Leading Up to A Luring Lottery June, 1983(p. 739)
• 31 Irrationality Is the Square Root of All Evil September, 1983(p. 756)
• 32 The Tale of Happiton June, 1983(p. 767)
• 33 The Tumult of Inner Voices, Or, What Is the Meaning of the Word "I"?(p. 781)
• Epilogue(p. 797)
• Bibliography(p. 802)
• Acknowledgments(p. 821)
• Index(p. 824)