Analogy as a force in cultural evolution

The nub of this idea started sprouting at least 3yrs ago (EHBEA 2017!) & really kicked off after @drstevilphd recommend I read Hofstadter & Sander's "Surfaces & Essences" book. I then noticed @psmaldino cited this awesome book in a preprint on the cultural evo of categorisation..

— Lotty Brand (@LottyBrand) August 24, 2020

David Hays and did a paper on metaphor that is relevant. We sketched out a neural argument that metaphor is one way the mind has of moving into new territory: William Benzon and David Hays, Metaphor, Recognition, and Neural Process, The American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1987), 59-80,
https://www.academia.edu/238608/Metaphor_Recognition_and_Neural_Process.