Title: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0465024750
ISBN 13: 9780465024759
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 3 pounds

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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.

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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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