Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

by Douglas R . Hofstadter (Author)

Synopsis

Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers will find in this elabourate web of ingenious ideas a deep and challenging new view of mind.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 01 Mar 1996

ISBN 10: 0465024750
ISBN 13: 9780465024759

Author Bio
Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. His previous books are the Pulitzer Prizewinning Goedel, Escher, Bach Metamagical Themas, The Mind's I, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton Beau de Marot, and Eugene Onegin.