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•OnlineComprehensivist Wednesdays: The Power of Analogy
OnlineIn this meetup, we’ll explore higher order thinking, focusing on how analogy and abstract thinking help us process complex information. Higher order thinking isn’t just about logic; it’s about using analogies to bridge concepts, understand relationships, and solve problems. A key aspect of this is chunking, where we group smaller units of information into larger cohesive wholes, enabling us to tackle more complex tasks and understand broader concepts.
Analogy is central to cognition; it’s more than just a comparison (like "A is to B as C is to D"). It involves recognizing similarities between ideas, connecting mental images and representations. Analogy links new experiences to familiar concepts, helping us form insights and deepen our understanding of the world. It acts as the "highway" of cognition, connecting diverse ideas and enabling us to solve problems and make abstract connections more easily. We will also attempt to explore how analogies provide us with key insights into what it means to be conscious, revealing deeper layers of self-awareness and perception.
Through analogy and abstract thinking, we create a cohesive understanding of the world and tackle challenges in innovative ways. This ability to move fluidly between concepts and ideas is key to creative problem solving and advancing our understanding of complex issues.
Analogy as the Core of Cognition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk
The business promise of “hub-and-spoke” systems
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KYeG_I1jp0vNqFHsB53IYcWwlL5rBN03/view?usp=sharing
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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays." Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive.”See the calendar at https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/calendar/
We record all our Meetups and post them on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer. Watch Past Meetups here.Welcome to "Comprehensivist Wednesdays"
Explore transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and polymathy in ways Buckminster Fuller described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive.”A Meetup Every Day, Every Week, For Everyone!
Join us every weekday at 8 pm or 9 pm ET. We record all our meetups and post them on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you participate.
Watch Past Meetups here.9 attendees
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