Often this means the spontaneous evocation of words, sometimes idioms, sometimes the triggering of nameless, long-buried memories. How does it do so? The ceaseless hail of input triggers analogies galore, helping us to pinpoint the essence of what is going on.
Our brain’s job is to try to make sense of this unpredictable, swarming chaos of stimuli. We are constantly faced with a swirling and intermingling multitude of ill-defined situations. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition.
Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over thirty years.
This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize - winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work.
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