In this provocative Stanford University Presidential lecture titled, “Analogy as the Core of Cognition”, cognitive scientist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Douglas Hofstadter elaborates on the role of analogy in cognitive computation in meticulous detail.

Also, he reminds me of David Byrne.

Recommended Reading:

I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

The Minds I by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett

Scientific American’s Metamagical Themas Column by Douglas Hofstadter

Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

Also – - – - >  I hear that  Gödel, Escher, Bach is incredible.  It’s the book that he won the Pulitzer Prize for and it’s been on my list for a long time.

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