cognitive sciences
- [similarity as transformation](https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/concepts/hahnsim.pdf) (hahn, chater, richardson 2003)
- use sequence of transformations as generalization of similarity into a framework called “represenational distortion”
- more transformations == more dissimilar
- using it as a proxy for kolmogorov complexity
- human judgements correlate with this measurement