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The story goes that Kekul´e day-dreamt of an Ouroboros symbol (a snake eating its own tail) or a Tibetan knot, when trying to find the structure of the benzene molecule (Fig. 1.1a).
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Oltețeanu, AM. (2020). Introduction. In: Cognition and the Creative Machine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30322-8_1
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