Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies

Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies
Title Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies PDF eBook
Author Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher
Total Pages 538
Release 1995-02-08
Genre Computers
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Hofstadter has developed a sophisticated vision of the mind in which perception, at an abstract level, is the key.

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Title Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Total Pages 250
Release 1991
Genre
ISBN 9780745010656

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Surfaces and Essences

Surfaces and Essences
Title Surfaces and Essences PDF eBook
Author Douglas Hofstadter
Publisher Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages 594
Release 2013-04-23
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0465018475

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Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situations, and giving rise to great acts of imagination.

I Am a Strange Loop

I Am a Strange Loop
Title I Am a Strange Loop PDF eBook
Author Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages 537
Release 2007-03-27
Genre Science
ISBN 0465030785

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Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Title Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies PDF eBook
Author Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher Lane, Allen
Total Pages 518
Release 1997
Genre Analogy
ISBN 9780713991550

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Analogy-making as Perception

Analogy-making as Perception
Title Analogy-making as Perception PDF eBook
Author Melanie Mitchell
Publisher Bradford Book
Total Pages 0
Release 1993
Genre Analogy
ISBN 9780262515443

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The psychologist William James observed that "a native talent for perceiving analogies is... the leading fact in genius of every order." The centrality and the ubiquity of analogy in creative thought have been noted again and again by scientists, artists, and writers, and understanding and modeling analogical thought have emerged as two of the most important challenges for cognitive science.Analogy-Making as Perception is based on the premise that analogy-making is fundamentally a high-level perceptual process in which the interaction of perception and concepts gives rise to "conceptual slippages" which allow analogies to be made. It describes Copycat - a computer model of analogymaking, developed by the author with Douglas Hofstadter, that models the complex, subconscious interaction between perception and concepts that underlies the creation of analogies.In Copycat, both concepts and high-level perception are emergent phenomena, arising from large numbers of low-level, parallel, non-deterministic activities. In the spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, Copycat occupies a unique intermediate position between symbolic systems and connectionist systems a position that is at present the most useful one for understanding the fluidity of concepts and high-level perception.On one level the work described here is about analogy-making, but on another level it is about cognition in general. It explores such issues as the nature of concepts and perception and the emergence of highly flexible concepts from a lower-level "subcognitive" substrate.Melanie Mitchell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, is a Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows. She is also Director of the Adaptive Computation Program at the Santa Fe Institute.

Metamagical Themas

Metamagical Themas
Title Metamagical Themas PDF eBook
Author Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publisher Basic Books
Total Pages 880
Release 2008-08-04
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0786723866

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Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.