Book:Douglas Hofstadter/Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
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Douglas Hofstadter: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought
Published $\text {1995}$, Allen Lane
- ISBN 0-7139-9155-0
Subject Matter
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Prologue: The Why, the When, the Where, and the Who of This Book
- Chapter 1. To Seek Whence Cometh a Sequence
- Preface 2: The Unconscious Juggling of Mental Objects
- Chapter 2. The Architecture of Jumbo
- Preface 3: Arithmetical Play and Nondeterminism
- Chapter 3. Numbo: A Study in Cognition and Recognition
- Preface 4: The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers
- Chapter 4. High-level Perception, Representation, and Analogy: A Critique of Artificial-Intelligence Methodology
- Preface 5: Conceptual Halos and Alienability
- Chapter 5. The Copycat Project: A Model of Mental Fluidity and Analogy-making
- Preface 6: Two Early AI Approaches to Analogy
- Chapter 6. Perspectives on Copycat: Comparisons with Recent Work
- Preface 7: Retrieval of Old and Invention of New Analogies
- Chapter 7. Prolegomena to Any Future Metacat
- Preface 8: Analogy-making in a Coffeehouse
- Chapter 8. Tabletop, BattleOp, Ob-Platte, Potelbat, Belpatto, Platobet
- Preface 9: The Knotty Problem of Evaluating Research in AI and Cognitive Science
- Chapter 9. The Emergent Personality of Tabletop, a Perception-Based Model of Analogy-making
- Preface 10: The Intoxicating World of Alphabets and Their Styles
- Chapter 10. Letter Spirit: Esthetic Perception and Creative Play in the Rich Microcosm of the Roman Alphabet
- Epilogue: On Computers, Creativity, Credit, Brain Mechanisms, and the Turing Test
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments