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Author Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-

Title Fluid concepts & creative analogies : computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought / by Douglas R. Hofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1995]
©1995

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  BF311 .H617 1995  1995    Available  ---
Description ix, 518 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-501) and index.
Contents Why, the when, the where, and the who of this book -- To seek whence cometh a sequence / Douglas Hofstadter -- Unconscious juggling of mental objects -- Architecture of jumbo / Douglas Hofstadter -- Arithmetical play and nondeterminism -- Numbo: a study in cognition and recognition / Daniel Defays -- Ineradicable Eliza effect and its dangers -- High-level perception, representation, and analogy: a critique of artificial-intelligence methodology / David Chambers, Robert French, and Douglas Hofstadter -- Conceptual halos and slippability -- Copycat project: a model of mental fluidity and analogy-making / Douglas Hofstadter and Melanie Mitchell -- Two early AI approaches to analogy -- Perspectives on copycat: comparisons with recent work / Melanie Mitchell and Douglas Hofstadter -- Retrieval of old and invention of new analogies -- Prolegomena to any future metacat / Douglas Hofstadter -- Analogy-making in a coffeehouse -- Tabletop, battleop, ob-platte, potelbat, belpatto, platobet, Douglas Hofstadter and Robert French -- Knotty problem of evaluating research in AI and cognitive science -- Emergent personality of tabletop, a perception-based model ofanalogy-making / Douglas Hofstadter and Robert French -- Intoxicating world of alphabets and their styles -- Letter-spirit: esthetic perception and creative play in the rich microcosm of the Roman alphabet / Douglas Hofstadter and Gary MGraw.
Subject Cognitive science.
Cognitive science.
Analogy -- Computer simulation.
Analogy -- Computer simulation.
Analogy.
Artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence.
Added Author Fluid Analogies Research Group.
Added Title Fluid concepts and creative analogies
ISBN 0465051545