Comment by HarHarVeryFunny

Agreed, and while subjective experience can be misleading (being a Hofstadian "strange loop" is a strange thing) you'd think that if our entire perceptual and cognitive processes were analogy based, then this would filter through to our everyday experience. You'd expect us to see analogies, not generalities, everywhere... looking at your car engine and seeing a hologram of your failing football team floating over it, perhaps!

It's notable that when we do use analogies there are really two use cases

1) Trying to use them to communicate an alternate or simpler POV

2) To make a joke, by pointing out a ridiculous comparison

The joke case is interesting, because this seems to be the basis of half of humor - breaking expectations (the other half perhaps being taboo breaking?), which really isn't how you'd want an adaptive cognitive system to work. You need to see the predictive regularities in the world, not see absurd similarities that make you laugh.