Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies - Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought As all thirty of you who read my review of Godel Escher and Bach an Eternal Golden Braid probably know I'm a Hofstadter fan. Although that other book was recognised by the literary community as Hofstadter's masterpiece, he won some major prizes, he has contributed some major work to the modern research community in what used to be called A.I., Artificial Intelligence. In the preface of this book Hofstadter writes: 'In the early 1980's, however, that term (AI) as words are wont to do, gradually started changing connotations, and ...  Read the complete review