I am obsessed with hofstadter's "surfaces and essences." it's a 500 page book on the nature of thought. he basically gives you a very long list of examples demonstrating that all thought is fundamentally driven by analogy. at first I was skeptical but https://t.co/2E9H6LSY39

Neuroscientists are building a powerful case that metaphor is far more important to human cognition than has ever been imagined. Many argue it’s the fundamental way that brains understand abstract concepts, such as love, joy, society and economy. It’s simply not possible to comprehend these ideas in any useful sense, then, without attaching them to

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