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Published by Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1995
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- Title
- Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought
- Author
- Douglas Hofstadter, Fluid Analogies Research Group (Authors)
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Inc., New York
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0465024750
- ISBN 13
- 9780465024759
- Edition
- Copyright © 1995
- Dimensions
- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Academic, Scholarly, Research, Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Science & Technology, Computer Sciences, IT
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.
“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.
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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.
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