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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publish Date: Mar 22nd, 1996
  • Pages: 528
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.85in - 7.28in - 1.19in - 2.09lb
  • EAN: 9780465024759
  • Categories: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionMind & BodyGeneral

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.