On Sale: Mar 22, 1996
Page Count: 528 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN-13: 9780465024759

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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, a stunning exploration ofthe mechanisms of intelligence through computer modeling.

“Terrific – deep, wise, provocative and profound.” – Los Angeles Times

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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Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach; Metamagical Themas; Le Ton beau de Marot; I Am a Strange Loop; “Translator, Trader”; and most recently, Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery.  He translated Alexander Pushkin’s novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin from Russian verse into English verse, and has also translated books from several other languages into English.

“Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies is much broader than the title suggests… It will change your idea of what it is to be creative and even what it is to be human… This exhilarating book is the most important on A.I. for the thoughtful general reader in years.”
New York Times Book Review
“Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies debunks some of the more outlandish claims that have been made by computer programmers in recent years. It will appeal to readers on all levels.”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“Terrific – deep, wise, provocative and profound.”
Los Angeles Times
“A most remarkable book.”
Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things
“AI enthusiasts who read this fantastic book will be impressed by recent progress in giving computers the power to think creatively.”
Martin Gardner, author of The Annotated Alice

Douglas R Hofstadter

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Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including I Am a Strange Loop and Surfaces and Essences, and has contributed to ten more. He lives in Bloomington.

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