Hofstadter lists dozens of complex concepts we use fluently—'solar system,' 'slam dunk,' 'beltway,' 'plagiarism,' 'Wikipedia,' 'Bose-Einstein condensation,' 'quantum cryptography,' 'baby boomer,' 'the Fed,' 'pork belly futures,' 'affirmative action,' 'presidential lecture'—showing the remarkable range and depth of human conceptual systems.

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Speaker

Douglas Hofstadter

Evidence Quote

These are concepts that we deal with very easily, very fluently, and they are so far removed from the concept network that an ant might have, or that a mouse might have

Source

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

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