The Brain As An Analogy Machine | On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Tina Miller, MA,CFLE stashed this in critical thinking
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Makes sense: "What cognitive scientists Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander set out to show is that this sort of elision is not merely a convenience: all our thinking depends on it, from the half-truths of everyday speech (“that always happens to me too!”) to the most abstruse of mathematical reasoning."
3:24 PM May 21 2013