Introduction

Studying Cognitive Science means having the wish to understand how cognition actually works.
One major cornerstone in this endeavor is Douglas Hofstadter. He believes that the core principle of intelligence is the ability to form analogies.
Concepts are not static but rather "fluid". Ideas and theories about one entity or another can therefore also be applied to previously unseen entities.
Trying to apply this principle to realm of artificial intelligence remains widely unsolved:
Computers simply do not "understand" in a strong sense what they are actually computing.
Nowadays it is therefore merely impossible for a computer system to abstract knowledge from one domain and apply it to another.