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On a more constructive note, may I recommend two essays by the inspired writer Douglas Hofstadter:
On the Seeming Paradox of Mechanizing Creativity and Analogies and Roles in Human and Machine Thinking. They are both collected in the sublime book Metamagical Themas. These two essays (and their vital post-scripts) alone are worth the price of the book and are among the most profound and insightful works I have ever read.
Also in that book on the same subject are
Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity
and also the wonderful Metafont, Metamathematics and Metaphysics. The latter is an essay about typography of all things. But, reading between the lines you see that fonts are only being used as a simplified 'toy model' to investigate the profound questions, that are found in the real world, raised by concept forming, categorization and all the rest.
In a similar vein I also recommend Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas Hofstadter and The Fluid Analogies Research Group.
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