luid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

Accepting Gray Areas in Concepts

Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the “merely mechanical,”…

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