Associative Search: The Brain's REPL

Video version by Hofstadter on "Analogy as the Core of Cognition": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk

great lecture! skintro (i mean skip the intro): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk&t=13m30s

The first part seems interesting. The whole thing is way too long to be read by a tired soul in a single read.

It IS a bit long.

To me the "Lexical blends" are an example of competing motor programs. Yes it does given a window into cognition, but it is a window into the parallel nature of processing in the brain and not into generalization.

Where did this absolutely bad title come from? Apparently not the article.