Analogy as the Core of Cognition
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Why it's on BrighterTube
Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 88% confidenceOfficial Stanford Presidential Lecture by the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach; a substantive talk on cognitive science.
What you'll learn
Douglas Hofstadter argues that analogy-making is the core mechanism of human thought, with many concrete examples.
Video by Stanford, played through YouTube's embedded player.