Most analogies happen so quickly and transiently that they would pass completely unnoticed and leave no effect on the world at all unless someone is paying deliberate attention to the mechanisms of their own thinking.
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Douglas HofstadterEvidence Quote
“this event inside my head happens so quickly and so fleetingly that I would not have even noticed it if I weren't kind of an inveterate observer of my own thinking...it would have disappeared in a flash. [27:17]”
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