The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems.

This collection had a strong influence on modern computational linguistics. Edited collection of essays about robotics with Introduction and Postscript by Minsky. The theory attempts to explain how what we call intelligence could be a product of the interaction of non-intelligent parts.