Analogical reasoning is conventionally treated as a minor component of cognition relegated to one small zone, but analogy should instead be understood as the central mechanism that connects everything—analogous to an interstate freeway system that links all of cognition together, not a peripheral Delaware.

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Speaker

Douglas Hofstadter

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Analogy is the interstate freeway system of cognition. It is not one little tiny zone somewhere off in the side. [16:57]

Source

Analogy as the Core of CognitionStanford
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:12:22 PM

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