Does A = A or not!? Or is it just approximate? Or none of it…
We Dawdlers take a dip into the book Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander on the significance of analogy-making in thinking.
00:04:40 – The book itself
00:14:30 – The man himself // Form and content
00:18:06 – The form of the content // The main thesis
00:25:15 – Analogy and category // Category, concept, and classification
00:32:22 – Aristotelian and Wittgensteinian styles
00:37:02 – What makes all “A’s” the “same”? // Conceptual skeletons at the gist level
00:43:26 – Ryan derails the discussion (homology)
00:50:06 – A test of analogies (?) // Aesthetics in analogy-making // Analogy-making is quasi-arbitrary
01:03:22 – Ryan derails the discussion once more (homology again)
01:15:31 – Influences on encoding // Organs of perception, etc. // A “biology” of convenience
01:27:44 – Ryan’s natural history of Doug’s abstractions on cognition
01:34:35 – Intelligence via analogy-making
01:39:01 – Einstein’s analogical quantum leap
E47: On Margin Haunting - Quo Bros, Margin Haunters, & Secular Gurus
Shorts - E33: The World
Dear Dawdler - E5: To Every Philosophy There Is A Season
E46: 10 Things To Hate About Nonfiction Books
E45: Dawdler Review - Triamonds, Episodic Synchronies, and NME Skeptics!
Dear Dawdler - E4: We Live in a Context (So I See)
Dear Dawdler - E3: We Live in a (Complex) Society
Shorts - E32: Putting Thumbs on a Penguin
Dear Dawdler - E2: We Are All in the Same Boat
Dear Dawdler - E1: We Are All Mutineers
Shorts - E31: The Two Cultures
Shorts - E30: The American Dream
E44: Subjective Chiroptera of Experience - Thomas Nagel's "What is it Like to Be a Bat?"
Haunting the Margins - E3: Alan Watts
E43: Rorty's Mirror of Nature Part II - Dividing by Zero
E42: Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature - Part I - An Ironic Kind of Fellow
Shorts - E29: The Great Server
E41: Every Theory of Everything Ever - The Evolution of Religions
Shorts - E28: Science NOW!
Shorts - E27: Luck vs. Karma
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