Mental leaps: analogy in creative thought

Abstract

Part 1 First steps: a bird's backyard analogic from Socrates to Velcro and Vietnam indirect communication ripples in the air creative connections overview. Part 2 Breaking loose: funes in chains from reacting to thinking similarity structure models purpose and cause summary. Part 3 The analogical ape: sameness what Sarah thinks how thought evolved the analogies of apes the invention of problems hitting the wall summary. Part 4 The analogical child: Lori's magic carpet toward system mapping first relations early relational mapping personification the next steps summary. Part 5 The construction of similarity: making Saddam into Hitler the tumour and the fortress selection mapping evaluation learning summary. Part 6 What is to be done?: Howard's dilemma coherent decisions houses and baseball players courtroom analogies lessons of the past no more Vietnams summary. Part 7 Wondering why: gods like us Plato's cave designing the world other minds intuition pumps Asian analogies summary. Part 8 The analogical scientist: great scientific analogies purposes cognitive mechanisms social sciences invention and design lessons summary. Part 9 The web of culture: the Japanese tea ceremony Star Trek and the hidden paths what is metaphor? the analogical basis metaphorical extensions laughter and love analogy as therapy making magic summary. Part 10 The analogical computer: looking backward the computational mind parallel constraint satisfaction mapping retrieval the competition the future of analogy.