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Do X like you would Y. That’s the essence of analogical thinking which can be surprisingly powerful in planning. We often want to restate one task in the language of another to reframe how we think about the problem. This reframing then helps us solve novel problems with solutions we already know.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.algebraicjulia.org/post/2025/04/analogicaltransfer/