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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The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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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: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, a stunning exploration ofthe mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling.

“Terrific – deep, wise, provocative and profound.” – Los Angeles Times

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 R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach; Metamagical Themas; Le Ton beau de Marot; I Am a Strange Loop; “Translator, Trader”; and most recently, Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery.  He translated Alexander Pushkin’s novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin from Russian verse into English verse, and has also translated books from several other languages into English.