Analogy-making as perception
a computer model
by Melanie Mitchell · first published 1993
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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 ubiquity of analogy in creative thought have been noted again and again by scientists, artists, and writers, and understanding and modeling analogical thought have emerged as two of the most important challenges for cognitive science. Analogy-Making as Perception is based on the premise that analogy-making is fundamentally a high-level perceptual process in which the interaction of perception and concepts gives rise to "conceptual slip
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…me excited about math again. And as something of a counter-point to that book, I also read Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder, which was also very good. Others that were definitely worth reading: Analogy Making As Perception by Melanie Mitchell Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky (re-read) Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1 by Ben Goertzel The AGI Revolution by Ben Goertzel And on a lighter note, some fun - if bizarre…
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2020?” ↗…Roads To Quantum Gravity - Lee Smolin Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos - Seth Lloyd Higgs - The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle' - Jim Baggott Analogy Making As Perception - Melanie Mitchell Society of Mind - Marvin Minsky Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1 - Ben Goertzel Engineering General Intelligence, Part 2 - Ben Goertzel The AGI Revolution - Ben Goertzel…
on “Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?” ↗…for Robust Commonsense Reasoning - Ron Sun 77. Probabilistic Logic Networks - Ben Goertzel, et al. 78. The Subtlety of Sameness: A Theory and Computer Model of Analogy Making - Robert M. French 79. Analogy Making as Perception - Melanie Mitchell 80. Real World Reasoning - Ben Goertzel, et al. 81. Artificial General Intelligence - Ben Goertzel & Cassio Pennachin 82. The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind - Ben…
on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?” ↗I implemented it in Python (while reading from that LISP version, a Java version, and Melanie Mitchell's "Analogy-Making as Perception"): https://github.com/jalanb/co.py.cat
on “A Python implementation of formal systems from the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach”” ↗Derp, derp... I meant to write "Analogy-Making as Perception by Melanie Mitchell". I blame lack of coffee.
on “Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?” ↗