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

Hofstadter, Douglas R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713991550 ISBN 13: 9780713991550

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1997

Synopsis

subtitle: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

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Review

A lucid, highly readable exploration of the computer models of discovery, creation, and analogical thought developed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and the Fluid Analogies Research Group. The book features anagram and number puzzles, analogy puzzles involving letter strings or tabletop objects, and fanciful alphabetic styles.

"A remarkable book. At first I said 'too technical and specialized,' but hours later I found I couldn't stop reading.... A marvelous book, illuminating oddities of thought and raising them to profound insights into the nature of human creativity."--Donald A. Norman, Apple Fellow; Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713991550
• ISBN 13: 9780713991550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528