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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of Mental Fluidity and Creativity Book

A lucid, highly readable exploration of the computer models of discovery, creation, and analogical thought developed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and the Fluid Analogies Research Group. The book features anagram and number puzzles, analogy puzzles involving letter strings or tabletop objects, and fanciful alphabetic styles. "A remarkable book. At first I said 'too technical and specialized,' but hours later I found I couldn't stop reading.... A marvelous book, illuminating oddities of thought and raising them to profound insights into the nature of human creativity."--Donald A. Norman, Apple Fellow; Professor Emeritus, University of California, San DiegoRead More

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    Hofstader has been on a somewhat lonely mission to find computational ways to capture his intuitions about how the mind works--intuitions he initially explored in the famous Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. This book, a collection of papers (most written with his graduate students), each with a thoughtful preface by Hofstader, shows that this quest has been extremely fruitful. In particular, Hofstader has been able to isolate, characterize, and show how to avoid a very deep problem -- the rigidity of "formal" representations, which pre-define the perspectives available to the reasoner.
    --Jed Harris

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