Fluid concepts & creative analogies : computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of Thought by Hofstadter, Douglas R - 1997

London: Allen Lane, 1997. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1995. This is the First UK edition: CONTENTS: Why, the when, the where, and the who of this book -- To seek whence cometh a sequence / Douglas Hofstadter -- Unconscious juggling of mental objects -- Architecture of jumbo / Douglas Hofstadter -- Arithmetical play and nondeterminism -- Numbo: a study in cognition and recognition / Daniel Defays -- Ineradicable Eliza effect and its dangers -- High-level perception, representation, and analogy: a critique of artificial-intelligence methodology / David Chambers, Robert French, and Douglas Hofstadter -- Conceptual halos and slippability -- Copycat project: a model of mental fluidity and analogy-making / Douglas Hofstadter and Melanie Mitchell -- Two early AI approaches to analogy -- Perspectives on copycat: comparisons with recent work / Melanie Mitchell and Douglas Hofstadter -- Retrieval of old and invention of new analogies -- Prolegomena to any future metacat / Douglas Hofstadter -- Analogy-making in a coffeehouse -- Tabletop, battleop, ob-platte, potelbat, belpatto, platobet, Douglas Hofstadter and Robert French -- Knotty problem of evaluating research in AI and cognitive science -- Emergent personality of tabletop, a perception-based model ofanalogy-making / Douglas Hofstadter and Robert French -- Intoxicating world of alphabets and their styles -- Letter-spirit: esthetic perception and creative play in the rich microcosm of the Roman alphabet / Douglas Hofstadter and Gary MGraw. ix, 518 p. : ill ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-501) and index. This copy is very good, and but for an area of spotting to the fore edges of the front and rear endpapers, would be marked higher. [ see Images ]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good - See below/images/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.