These 2 volumes include papers and abstracts of papers presented at the August 2002 "The Way We Think" conference in Denmark. Papers and abstracts of papers in the two volumes include: "Blending and Conceptual Disintegration" (Anders Hougaard); "Levels of Blending, Disintegration, and Language Evolution" (Carl Bache); "Conceptual Integration, Categorization, Metaphor, and Idiomaticity in he New European Monetary Union (the Euro)" (Carmen Ma Bretones Callejas); "Blending into the Background: Children's Symbolic Play, Props, and Staging in the Material World" (Chris Sinha); "CYBERSPACE, BLENDED SPACE: Cyberspace as a Conceptual Integration" (Conrad Johansson); "How to Build a Human: Genes, Blends, and Popular Culture" (Craig A. Hamilton); "Material Anchors for Conceptual Blends" (Edwin Hutchins); "Primary Metaphor and the Fantastic" (Elena Tapia); "Analogy: Within Reality; Between Reality and Language; Between Mind and Language; Within Language" (Esa Itkonen); "Conversational Compressions: Conceptual Blending and Virtual Interaction in Phrases" (Esther Pascual); "Conceptual Integration in the Domain of Music" (Finn Holst); "The Syntactic Realization of Conceptual Integration: The Quotative Use of German Modal Verbs" (Geert Brone and Kurt Feyaerts); "Blending and Artistic Creativity" (Gilles Fauconnier); "Fictive Motion, Perception, and Conceptual Integration" (Jesper Egholm); "Gradient Blends: The Art of Discerning and Doing the Appropriate Thing" (Katherine O'Doherty Jensen); "Blending and Moving-Ego and Moving-Time" (Kazuko Shinohara); "From X to Y: The'Complete Path' Construction in Basque" (Koldo J. Garai and Ibarretxe-Antunano); "Humor through 'Double Grounding': Structural Interaction of Optimality Principles" (Kurt Feyaerts and Geert Brone); "Entrenchment Facilitated Through Iteration in Blended Constructions in Hungarian" (Laszlo I. Komlosi); "The Emotive Function of Poetic Imagery" (Mette Steenberg); "Experimental Evidence in Support of a Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the Spanish Verbs 'Ser' and 'Estar'" (Monica Gonzalez-Marquez and Michael J. Spivey); "The Man, the Key, or the Car: Who or What Is Parked Out Back?" (Morana Alac and Seana Coulson); "[We Can All Get to a Point...] New Media Art and Conceptual Integration" (Morten Sondergaard); "Cognition in Jazz Improvisation" (Ole Kuhl); "Conceptual Integration in Natural Internet Definitions: A Dutch and French Discursive Case Study" (Paul Sambre); "Mental Spaces, Mental Architecture, and an Excellent Mistake" (Per Aage Brandt); "Blending Linguistics and Cognition: A Methodological Critique" (Philip Bell); "Conceptual Integration on a Cultural Timescale: The Evolution of Time-Telling" (Robert F. Williams); "Digging One's Own Grave: Integrating Current Blending Theory and Grammatical Analysis" (Ronald R. Jacobsen); "Creative Collocations and Conceptual Integration" (Sonja Poulsen); "Shorts, Breeches, and Bloomers: Plurality in Blends" (Svitlana A. Zhabotynska); "Thought Experiments, Conceivability Arguments, and Conceptual Blending" (Tim De Mey); and "Compromise in Multi-Agent Blends" (Tony Veale). (VWL)