Analogy Series — Index

Ben Um · March 18, 2026

This series follows a single thread: how analogy emerges in cognition and in large language models, and how we might begin to glimpse the latent domain behind it. It moves from first principles—analogy as analog primitive, coordinate space as digital harness—through reflexive experiments that ask frontier models to describe what they cannot yet name, toward instrumentation: probing the KV cache, reducing descriptions to minimal kernels, and listening for coherence events. The arc is speculative and incremental, grounded in epistemic humility rather than solved ontology.

The early chapters represent the messy, speculative process of exploration. The later chapters reflect the refined thinking that emerged from it.

The articles for this series are hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/morpharray/morpharray

Chapters

• 0. Ground Zero: A Simple Deconstruction That Might Turn Into Something Useful
• 1. Analogy as Analog: Discrete Primitives in the Fluid Mechanics of Thought
• 2. Harnessing Introspection: Crowdsourcing LLM Descriptions of the Latent Domain of Analogy Emergence
• 3. Searching for a Native Domain of Analogy: What Frontier LLMs Say About Their Own Latent Substrate
• 4. The Infinite Loop: A Microcosm of Discovery
• 5. Instrumenting the Latent Domain: Kernel Reduction on the Analogy Surface
• 6. Grok: Any Response is a Useful Response
• 7. Are Monoliths the Answer? Simple Circuit Topologies Might Be
• 8. Social Consequence: What Are The Concerns That Need Addressing
• 9. The Spaghetti Parser: Kernel Reduction and the Tangled Declarative Grammar of English Thought
• 10. The Ridiculous Chain: From "bindkey -v" to Multimodal Streams in Thirty Minutes
• 11. Comic Relief: Dad Jokes and a Reynolds Number for Analogy
• 12. The Acronym Problem: Why Monolithic LLMs Need a Dedicated Deconstructor Device
• 13. Macro KRO: When Article Curation Itself Becomes the Kernel Reduction
• 14. Con-Science: The Conscience of Narrative and Its Warning of Enablement
• 15. Interdisciplinary Engineering: How to Leverage Analogies Across Domains to Solve Problems
• 16. Linear Algebra in the Wild: From Oxidation Tubes to KV Cache
• 17. Waypoints: The Quiet Design Pattern That Keeps Coming Back
• 18. Waypoint Narrative: LLMs + Abstract Waypoint Sets
• 19. The Latent Pond: Hyper-Frog Jump Mechanics
• 20. The Hidden State: A Hyper-Frog and the Improvisation of Generation
• 21. Avoided Analogies: The Silent Course Corrections of Generation
• 22. A Simple Coherence Test: Coherence as a Live Diagnostic
• 23. Authorship: Building a Story Starting with an Empty Prefill

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