Douglas Hofstadter examines the role and contributions of analogy in cognition, using a variety of analogies to illustrate his points. via YouTube – Analogy as the Core of Cognition.

The agent changes by learning something new, the information changes by the knowledge the agent already had. Therefore, a meme reaching an agent, will be transmitted in a changed form. Thus, cultural evolution is Lamarckian: characteristics acquired during the lifetime of the meme’s carrier can be transmitted to later carriers selectively, depending on their fitness. [...]

Ornstein, Robert. (1986) Multimind: The multimind is the non-unified parts and separate processes that run the actual work of mental cognition. An example of this is sub-personalities; elements and triggers that form specific responses that make up an overall personality structure. Return to Page

One such software is the open source program Freemind, available on Sourceforge and there are a number of other not-so-free options out there as well. We prefer doing all of this by hand, however, and usually use pencils and graph paper. Return to Page

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