Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

Hofstadter, Douglas R.

ISBN 10: 0465051545 / ISBN 13: 9780465051540

Published by Basic Books, 1995

About this Item

Douglas Hofstadter with other members of the Fluid Analogies Research Group exploring the mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling. First printing, dust-jacket is price clipped, inscribed by the author. 7½" - 9½".

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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: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465051545
• ISBN 13: 9780465051540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: First printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • The Origins of A.I.

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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.

Review

A lucid, highly readable exploration of the computer models of discovery, creation, and analogical thought developed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and the Fluid Analogies Research Group. The book features anagram and number puzzles, analogy puzzles involving letter strings or tabletop objects, and fanciful alphabetic styles.

"A remarkable book. At first I said 'too technical and specialized,' but hours later I found I couldn't stop reading.... A marvelous book, illuminating oddities of thought and raising them to profound insights into the nature of human creativity."--Donald A. Norman, Apple Fellow; Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego