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

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought (Paperback)

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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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