Douglas Hofstadter's classic talk: analogy as the core of cognition
ArtificialOther · x · 2026-10-16
A share of Douglas Hofstadter's classic lecture Analogy as the Core of Cognition, arguing that analogy-making underlies human cognition — still a useful lens for thinking about LLM generalization and reasoning.
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