Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

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.

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.

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Prologue: The Why, the When, the Where, and the Who of This Book

1

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To Seek Whence Cometh a Sequence

13

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The Unconscious Juggling of Mental Objects

87

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The Architecture of Jumbo

97

(34)

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Arithmetical Play and Nondeterminism

127

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Numbo: A Study in Cognition and Recognition

131

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Daniel Defays

The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers

155

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High-level Perception, Representation, and Analogy: A Critique of Artificial-intelligence Methodology

169

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David Chalmers

Robert French

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Conceptual Halos and Slippability

195

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The Copycat Project: A Model of Mental Fluidity and Analogy-making

205

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Melanie Mitchell

Two Early Al Approaches to Analogy

269

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Perspectives on Copycat: Comparisons with Recent Work

275

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Melanie Mitchell

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Retrieval of Old and Invention of New Analogies

301

(6)

Prolegomena to Any Future Metacat

307

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Analogy-making in a Coffeehouse

319

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Tabletop, BattleOp, Ob-Platte, Potelbat, Belpatto, Platobet

323

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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

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Robert French

The Intoxicating World of Alphabets and Their Styles

401

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Letter Spirit: Esthetic Perception and Creative Play in the Rich Microcosm of the Roman Alphabet

407

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Gary McGraw

Epilogue: On Computers, Creativity, Credit, Brain Mechanisms, and the Turing Test

467

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References

493

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Index

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