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Douglas R. Hofstadter

“In short, nonstop categorization is every bit as indispensable to our survival in the world as is the nonstop beating of our hearts. Without the ceaseless pulsating heartbeat of our “categorization engine”, we would understand nothing around us, could not reason in any form whatever, could not communicate with anyone else, and would have no basis on which to take any action.”

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
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