we cut the world into pieces with words, distinctions, categories. analogy and metaphor sews things back together, reminds us of the inherent sameness of everything
we cut the world into pieces with words, distinctions, categories. analogy and metaphor sews things back together, reminds us of the inherent sameness of everything
Metaphors are interpreters—what interpreters do for bits and bytes, metaphors do for reality. They translate physical experiences into thoughts, ideas, insights and lessons that can be interpreted and understood, acted upon and shared.
The eerie certainty we have of existing as separate creatures in a world full of things that are not us, our ability to create abstract symbolic representations of our mental states and use language to communicate these interior states of mind—all
Abby Smith Rumsey • When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
Creative thought is often helped by mobilising metaphor and analogy—seeing one thing and thinking of another (a variant of the grafting process described above). Much of social change comes from shifts in metaphors. Do we see society as a war, a body or an organism; a building, a machine or a family?
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Creative thought is often helped by mobilising metaphor and analogy—seeing one thing and thinking of another (a variant of the grafting process described above). Much of social change comes from shifts in metaphors. Do we see society as a war, a body or an organism; a building, a machine or a family? Do we think in terms of journeys, or defence aga
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The machines we need for making sense of this omnipresent, efflorescent and entangled world – where making sense is analogous, as Wittgenstein said of language, to joining in play – should not be more remote, more abstract, but more like the world.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
the mind joins the fragmented ‘dots’ of momentary experience, and thus fabricates some ‘bigger’ and more solid-seeming experience.
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
