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✍ Hofstadter, Douglas; Sander, Emmanuel 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Basic Books 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Is there one central mechanism upon which all human thinking rests? Cognitive scientists Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander argue that there is. At this core is our incessant proclivity to take what we perceive, to abstract it, and to find resemblances to prior experiences—in other words, our ab

Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

✍ Hofstadter, Douglas; Sander, Emmanuel 📂 Fiction 🏛 Basic Books 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

Is there one central mechanism upon which all human thinking rests? Cognitive scientists Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander argue that there is. At this core is our incessant proclivity to take what we perceive, to abstract it, and to find resemblances to prior experiences--in other words, our a

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