Douglas Hofstadter - Analogy as the Core of Cognition

Sandra Kiume posted this lecture by Douglas Hofstadter at her Channel N: Brain and Behaviors Videos blog at Psych Central. Hofstadter's most recent book was I Am a Strange Loop.

Analogy as the Core of Cognition

By Sandra Kium

Analogy as the Core of Cognition

Douglas Hofstadter demonstrates numerous analogies and talks about how analogy is at the core of cognition, in this high profile Presidential Lecture from the Stanford archives.

Producer: Stanford University Presidential Lecture

Featuring: Douglas Hofstadter

Length: 01:08:37