FLUID CONCEPTS AND CREATIVE ANALOGIES; COMPUTER MODELS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS OF THOUGHT

Hofstadter, Douglas R.

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ISBN 10: 0465024750 ISBN 13: 9780465024759

Published by Basic Books, New York, 1995

Language: English

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FLUID CONCEPTS AND CREATIVE ANALOGIES; COMPUTER MODELS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS OF THOUGHT

Publisher

Basic Books, New York

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

0465024750

ISBN 13

9780465024759

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Soft cover

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Very Good

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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 elaborate web of ingenious ideas a deep and challenging new view of mind.

About the Author

Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His other books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning G�del, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid; Metamagical Themas; The Mind's I; Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; Le Ton beau de Marot; and Surfaces and Essences, with Emmanuel Sander. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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