Comments on: Why thinking in analogies is dangerous http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/why-thinking-in-analogies-is-dangerous/1587 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:35:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert B http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/why-thinking-in-analogies-is-dangerous/1587/comment-page-1#comment-726959 Robert B Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:24:03 +0000 http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/why-thinking-in-analogies-is-dangerous/1587#comment-726959 My first thought on analogies was how most design patterns stem from them, and how they are much easier to think of that way. Adaptors make me thing of a hardware widget for fitting a square peg into a round hole, for instance. My second thought was how most solutions in Star Trek ended up being distilled into their basic idea through analogy. "Like putting to much air into a Balloon!" - Futurama Star Trek Episode. My first thought on analogies was how most design patterns stem from them, and how they are much easier to think of that way. Adaptors make me thing of a hardware widget for fitting a square peg into a round hole, for instance.

My second thought was how most solutions in Star Trek ended up being distilled into their basic idea through analogy. “Like putting to much air into a Balloon!” – Futurama Star Trek Episode.

]]> By: JAC http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/why-thinking-in-analogies-is-dangerous/1587/comment-page-1#comment-726895 JAC Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:55:40 +0000 http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/why-thinking-in-analogies-is-dangerous/1587#comment-726895 Hmmm...thinking non-analogically, for me, is like trying to see Pelee Island thro' fog. Hmmm…thinking non-analogically, for me, is like trying to see Pelee Island thro’ fog.

]]> By: Nick McClendon http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/why-thinking-in-analogies-is-dangerous/1587/comment-page-1#comment-726876 Nick McClendon Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:17:52 +0000 http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/why-thinking-in-analogies-is-dangerous/1587#comment-726876 Try reading <i>I Am a Strange Loop</i> by Douglas Hofstadter—one of his main theses in that book is that analogies are the highest form of cognition; <a href="http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.html" title="Analogy as the Core of Cognition" rel="nofollow">he makes a rather convincing argument</a>, too. Try reading I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter—one of his main theses in that book is that analogies are the highest form of cognition; he makes a rather convincing argument, too.

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