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The provided passages discuss the book "Analogy-Making as Perception" and its focus on analogy-making as a high-level perceptual process [2]. The book describes Copycat, a computer model that simulates the interaction between perception and concepts in analogy creation [2]. Copycat is positioned as an intermediate approach between symbolic and connectionist systems, which is considered useful for understanding concept fluidity and high-level perception [1].
The passages do not explicitly detail the practical implications of this research. They focus on the theoretical underpinnings of analogy-making and the description of the Copycat model [1, 2].
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inistic activities. In the spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, Copycat occupies a unique intermediate position between symbolic systems and connectionist systems a position that is at present the most useful one for understanding the fluidity of concepts and high-level perception. -- Publisher description.
Title: Analogy-making as perception by Melanie Mitchell Description: 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…