Video: How analogies shape our thoughts
The idea of “files” has been carried over into the digital world, helping us to navigate it (Image: Lars Tunbjork/Agence Vu/Camera Press)
IN 1854, English mathematician George Boole published An Investigation of the Laws of Thought – an influential book whose topic was not psychology, as one might expect, but logic. In Boole’s day, the processes underlying human thinking were assumed to belong to the domain of logic, because everyone knew that what distinguished humans from animals is that we reason while animals do not. This was seen as the hallmark of the…
