Re-Framing
The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Anu Gupta, Breaking Bias
Causal Layered Analysis: An Integrative and Transformative Theory and Method
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) is a transformative futures research theory/method that integrates multiple layers of analysis to provoke critical thinking and create alternative visions for policy development and decision-making.
metafuture.orgFROM MONOMODAL TO MULTIMODAL METAPHORS THE COGNITIVE METAPHOR
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‘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
The role of metaphor and narrative, as opposed to new theories or experiments, is too little recognised in discussions of the historian of science Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts, supposed (and contested) moments of dramatic change in science. All scientists know how to go about scrutinising a theory: you use it to formulate some testable hypothesis,... See more
Philip Ball • We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology | Aeon Essays
An equanimous subject is ready to meet the world on its own terms.