Analogy as the Core of Cognition
******* Language, Cognition, and Computation Seminar Series ******* Title Analogy as the Core of Cognition Speaker Douglas Hofstadter Affiliation Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University Bloomington Date Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Time 2:00 pm Location E15-070 (Bartos Theater)
Analogy as the Core of Cognition ******* Language, Cognition, and Computation Seminar Series ******* Title Analogy as the Core of Cognition Speaker Douglas Hofstadter Affiliation Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University Bloomington Date Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Time 2:00 pm Location E15-070 (Bartos Theater) Abstract Analogy is almost always conceived of by psychologists and cognitive scientists as some kind of advanced or sophisticated mental tool used in problem-solving by specialists in a given domain when all else fails. Moreover, the adjective analogical is almost a
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