Metaphorically speaking｜Dirt
‘Metaphoric thinking is fundamental to our understanding of the world, because it is the only way in which understanding can reach outside the system of signs to life itself. It is what links language to life.’ – Iain McGilchrist
Giles Hutchins • The Need For Metaphor: A Shift from Machine to Nature
Metaphors like this are more than just literary devices — they are fundamental organs of human cognition
Kevin Simler • Status as Space
She also shared that someone very close to her was losing their cognitive functions due to dementia and this was consuming her. She felt that it was the most horrible thing. She knew a bit about my work and so she asked what I thought about the whole thing—the fact that we could lose our minds as we aged. I didn’t know what to say exactly so I expl... See more
“Memory, I know, is a non-unitary concept. There are memories that are explicit, that can be produced and formulated, verbally expressed, set down neatly in ink in a honeycomb of black-and-white squares. This we call declarative memory. There is the body’s memory, instinct, the intuitive flash which enables us to perch atop a bicycle, skitter acros... See more
Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
