Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and

Describes research projects in cognitive science over the past twenty years, and discusses arithmetical play, analogy, research evaluation, and creativity

Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situation

Hofstadter has developed a sophisticated vision of the mind in which perception, at an abstract level, is the key.

The psychologist William James observed that "a native talent for perceiving analogies is... the leading fact in genius of every order." The centrality and the