Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought

by Hofstadter, Douglas R

• ISBN13: 9780465024759
• ISBN10: 0465024750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-22
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. His previous books are the Pulitzer Prizewinning Gödel, Escher, Bach; Metamagical Themas, The Mind’s I, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton Beau de Marot, and Eugene Onegin.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
Prologue: The Why, the When, the Where, and the Who of This Book	1	(12)
To Seek Whence Cometh a Sequence	13	(84)
Douglas Hofstadter
The Unconscious Juggling of Mental Objects	87	(10)
The Architecture of Jumbo	97	(34)
Douglas Hofstadter
Arithmetical Play and Nondeterminism	127	(4)
Numbo: A Study in Cognition and Recognition	131	(38)
Daniel Defays
The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers	155	(14)
High-level Perception, Representation, and Analogy: A Critique of Artificial-intelligence Methodology	169	(36)
David Chalmers
Robert French
Douglas Hofstadter
Conceptual Halos and Slippability	195	(10)
The Copycat Project: A Model of Mental Fluidity and Analogy-making	205	(70)
Douglas Hofstadter
Melanie Mitchell
Two Early Al Approaches to Analogy	269	(6)
Perspectives on Copycat: Comparisons with Recent Work	275	(32)
Melanie Mitchell
Douglas Hofstadter
Retrieval of Old and Invention of New Analogies	301	(6)
Prolegomena to Any Future Metacat	307	(16)
Douglas Hofstadter
Analogy-making in a Coffeehouse	319	(4)
Tabletop, BattleOp, Ob-Platte, Potelbat, Belpatto, Platobet	323	(54)
Douglas Hofstadter
Robert French
The Knotty Problem of Evaluating Research in Al and Cognitive Science	359	(18)
The Emergent Personality of Tabletop, a Perception-based Model of Analogy-making	377	(30)
Douglas Hofstadter
Robert French
The Intoxicating World of Alphabets and Their Styles	401	(6)
Letter Spirit: Esthetic Perception and Creative Play in the Rich Microcosm of the Roman Alphabet	407	(60)
Douglas Hofstadter
Gary McGraw
Epilogue: On Computers, Creativity, Credit, Brain Mechanisms, and the Turing Test	467	(26)
References	493	(9)
Index	502