#emmanuel sander

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“La Analogía. El Motor del Pensamiento”, de Douglas R. Hofstadter y Emmanuel Sander (Tusquets).

ENSAYO Publica Tusquets Traduce Roberto Musa Douglas R. Hofstadter considera que la analogía es el núcleo de la cognición humana y dedica con Emmanuel Sander más de ochocientas páginas al tema en e…

Libro sugerido el 18 de mayo del 2018.

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Acronyms as a means of navigating the complexity of modern life

“Just as we need to hide the massively complex details inside our fancy gadgets by elegant and user-friendly packaging, so we need to hide the details of many ideas in order to talk about them in a sufficiently compact way that we won’t get lost in a mountain of details.”

From Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander (2013).

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We prefer deceptively simple facts to the more complicated truth

“Our intense human desire to avoid ambiguity, to pinpoint the true and to discard the false, to separate the wheat from the chaff, tends to make us seek and believe in very sharp answers to questions that have none.”

From Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander (2013).

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Thus one can be sensitive to the cold and to an insult; one can have a sensation of burning and of déjà vu; one can have developed great sensitivity to penicillin and to beauty.

Douglas Hofstader and Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences.

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At times the official word handed down from on high runs against the grain or seems totally arbitrary, and moreover the official spelling frequently changes as one traverses the Atlantic or the decades.

Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences.

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(by virtue of belonging to the category person, an entity is known to have a stomach and a sense of humor)

Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences.