Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!pds From: pds@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: false authors Message-ID: <757@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-May-83 10:13:18 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.757 Posted: Thu May 26 10:13:18 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 29-May-83 04:09:59 EDT Lines: 19 Relay-Version:version B 2.10 5/3/83; site harpo.UUCP Message-ID:<757@uvacs.UUCP> Date:Thu, 26-May-83 10:13:18 EDT Hofstadter seems big on this kind of stuff. Check the bibliography in a recent (~ 4 months ago) issue of Scientific American, for his column "Metamagical Themas." The topic was self-referential, self-duplicating ideas (verbal viruses--more GEB-like discussions). He lists a fictitious article in the bibliography, the author, title, and host magazine of which are similar to the article itself. Dave Stotts, Univ. of Virginia uucp: ...decvax!duke!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!pds CSnet: pds@uvacs Arpa: pds.uvacs@udel-relay