It seems pretty wild to request that we stop relying on them altogether, almost as if you were asking us to stop thinking. Analogies seem so core to me when developing thought in novel domains, that it’s hard to imagine life without them.
I agree with Douglas Hofstadter’s claim that thinking even a single thought about any topic, without using analogies, is just impossible—1hr talk, book-length treatment which I have been gradually reading (the book is good but annoyingly longwinded).
(But note that the OP does not actually go so far as to demand that everyone stop using analogies.)
I agree with Douglas Hofstadter’s claim that thinking even a single thought about any topic, without using analogies, is just impossible—1hr talk, book-length treatment which I have been gradually reading (the book is good but annoyingly longwinded).
(But note that the OP does not actually go so far as to demand that everyone stop using analogies.)