Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over thirt…
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Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situations, and giving rise to great acts of imagination.
Publi ̌aux Etats-Unis en 1979, ce best-seller international a notamment remport ̌le prix Pulitzer 1980. L'auteur, brillant professeur d'informatique, "ťablit des liens entre les gravures d'Escher, la musique de Bach et la logique mathm̌atique, et nous rend intelligibles des similit…
When he was 27, Douglas Hofstadter wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach, a bestselling book loved by precocious teenagers and computer hackers. Its mixture of logic, music and visual art blended the richness of the humanities and the rigor of the sciences in an altogether unforgettable con…