Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought

Hofstadter, Douglas R

ISBN 10: 0465024750 / ISBN 13: 9780465024759

Published by Basic Books, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465024750
• ISBN 13: 9780465024759
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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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 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 Gödel, 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.