[the_af]

No, analogies and embeddings are not exactly the same. Analogies in language are not a math function.

As Ted Chiang comments on the article, this kind of reasoning ("the brain is like $CURRENT_TECH") is flawed.

[est]

well, embedding comes with certain loss as well.

If you believe our brains use "language" to think, then I would assume analogies play an important part in reasoning.

[the_af]

I don't know if brains use language to think, but I do believe analogies play an important part in reasoning.

I'm just saying embeddings and analogies aren't the same; equating them is precisely the kind of flawed reasoning Ted Chiang mentions in the article.

Or to answer more directly:

> analogy, in other words, embeddings?

No, analogies aren't embeddings "in other words".