Critical Thinking and
Creative Analogies

With the rapid rise of AI, knowledge itself is being rethought. This book argues that the essential skills of the age are critical thinking — the rigor that checks our reasoning — and creative analogy — the leap that connects a familiar idea to an unfamiliar one. It begins with everyday paradoxes and dilemmas and builds toward bionics in AI and the creation of more human-like intelligence, showing how analogical reasoning transforms seemingly unsolvable problems into practical challenges. This companion turns the book's central ideas into things you can run yourself: throw darts to find π, watch ants discover a shortest path, feel decision paralysis in a paradox, and tune the forces of evolution and devolution.