Q: i feel like you're very quick to put the kabosh on analogous thinking, stepping in with an implication to remind the asker that the subjects in question are not entirely alike at all, and are both wonderful and terrible in their own ways. You do this with common structures for questions, as well. I have a great respect for it, because it feels like you're stopping generalization and forcing people to look even harder at things. However, I am in a cognitive science class, and it is teaching me that analogy is fairly specific to humans, and it might be what has allowed us to advance beyond other species. We can apply learned information in a highly abstract way to many facets of our lives when we recognize similar structure, whereas other animals cannot. So now I am torn! What do you make of this?
A: analysis, making connections, categorizing things, ... all that stuff is wonderful, and i think it's an art, not a science. you can treat it as science, but you will surely run into trouble if you ever run into jokesters