Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Hofstadter , Douglas R. and Group , Fluid Analogies Research (1995), luid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, Retrieved on 2012-06-05
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    05 JUN 2012

     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,” ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.
    Folksonomies: life definitions
    Folksonomies: life definitions
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    Such as defining life, instead of demanding black and white boundaries.

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