{"id":239333,"date":"2026-06-19T14:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/analogy-as-the-core-of-cognition"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:05:03","slug":"analogy-as-the-core-of-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/analogy-as-the-core-of-cognition","title":{"rendered":"Analogy as the Core of Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n8m7lFQ3njk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this Presidential Lecture, cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter examines the role and contributions of analogy in cognition, using a variety of analogies to illustrate his points.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"a6rbjyFkN5\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/\">Stanford University<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Stanford University&#8221; &#8212; Stanford University\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/embed\/#?secret=Lk1sXoCBPn#?secret=a6rbjyFkN5\" data-secret=\"a6rbjyFkN5\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stanford Humanities Center:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shc.stanford.edu\/\">http:\/\/shc.stanford.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanford University Channel on YouTube:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/analogy-as-the-core-of-cognition\">Continue reading \u201cAnalogy as the Core of Cognition\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Presidential Lecture, cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter examines the role and contributions of analogy in cognition, using a variety of analogies to illustrate his points. Stanford University: Stanford University Stanford Humanities Center: http:\/\/shc.stanford.edu\/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: Continue reading \u201cAnalogy as the Core of Cognition\u201d | &gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}