The Subtlety of Sameness: A Theory and Computer Model of Analogy-Making Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2395987 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2395987 N2 - {<B>Foreword by Daniel Dennett</B><br /> <br /> While it is fashionable today to dismiss the "bad old days" of artificial intelligence and rave about emergent self-organizing systems, Robert French has created a model of human analogy-making that attempts to bridge the gap between classical top-down AI and more recent bottom-up approaches.<br /> <br /> The research described in this book is based on the premise that human analogy-making is an extension of our constant background process of perceiving--in other words, that analogy-making and the perception of sameness are two sides of the same coin. At the heart of the author's theory and computer model of analogy-making is the idea that the building-up and the manipulation of representations are inseparable aspects of mental functioning, in contrast to traditional AI models of high-level cognitive processes, which have almost always depended on a clean separation.<br /> <br /> A computer program called Tabletop forms analogies in a microdomain consisting of everyday objects on a table set for a meal. The theory and the program rely on the idea that myriad stochastic choices made on the microlevel can add up to statistical robustness on a macrolevel. To illustrate this, French includes the results of thousands of runs of his program on several dozen interrelated analogy problems in the Tabletop microworld.<br /> <br /> French's work is exciting not only because it reveals analogy-making to be an extension of our complex and subtle ability to perceive sameness but also because it offers a computational model of mechanisms underlying these processes. This model makes significant strides in putting into practice microlevel stochastic processing, distributed processing, simulated parallelism, and the integration of representation-building and representation-processing.<br /> <br /> <i>A Bradford Book</i>} SN - 0262061805 TI - The Subtlety of Sameness: A Theory and Computer Model of Analogy-Making PB - {The MIT Press} KW - analogy KW - architecture-copycat KW - architecture-farg KW - architecture-tabletop KW - book AU - French, Robert PY - 1995/10/25/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0262061805 ER -