Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Creative process, Information science or systems, Computers, Artificial intelligence, Intellect, Thought or thinking
An analogy seems an appropriate way to begin a review of a book whose central theme is creative analogies: This review is to Douglas Hofstadter’s book as a musician’s improvisations are to the melody upon which he or she is improvising. For Hofstadter, this and other analogies grow out of the human ability, which lies at the core of creativity, to see similarities in things that appear otherwise dissimilar. Book reviewing, improvising a jazz solo, and discovering computer analogues to human thinking involve, respectively, new and preconceived ideas, musical phrases, and computer...
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