This is a place-holder for a longer article.
The gist of it is that analogy, as outlined in Surfaces and Essences is the way to think of "cultural" evolution - the evolution of the super-mind - that exploded especially in the last 10,000 years. The stage was set by the prodigious growth of the cortex - a tissue best characterized as an analogy-creating machine.
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