Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies 1995
- Cognitive science, Analogy, Computer simulation, Artificial intelligence
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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- 1995
- Pages
- 525
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press, Basic Books, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780140258356
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“In 1977, I began my new career as a professor of computer science, aiming to specialize in the field of artificial intelligence.”
Douglas Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book *Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid* won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science. His 2007 book *I Am a Strange Loop* won the *Los Angeles Times* Book Prize for Science and Technology.—*Wikipedia* 2021-03-03
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