The mind is in many ways like the river of Heraclitus. David Ickes? Please tell me I misheard your reference there...You didn't mean David Ickes, did you?
Thanks for the reminder about Heraclitus, which led me on to think of Thales, so all good stuff. David Icke is widely assumed to be mad, which may well be true for what I've seen and read. One of the things I find interesting about his particular brand of eccentricity is how he tends to take literally what most people would assume to be metaphors.
Yes, I agree that it might be a good strategy to keep in mind the possibility that sometimes those things which society commonly consider to be metaphors, aren't....On the other hand, don't we have to use such a technique judiciously? If it actually IS a metaphor, it might be important to see it as such to maintain a good grasp of what is real.
Absolutely, and from my understanding of cognitive linguistics (Lakoff and Johnson etc) much more of our understanding is metaphorical than previously imagined. I have heard figures up to 95% quoted, which is really exciting.
The mind is in many ways like the river of Heraclitus. David Ickes? Please tell me I misheard your reference there...You didn't mean David Ickes, did you?
2bsirius 4 years ago
Oops, it's actually David Icke...I've never read him, so I wasn't sure.
2bsirius 4 years ago
Thanks for the reminder about Heraclitus, which led me on to think of Thales, so all good stuff. David Icke is widely assumed to be mad, which may well be true for what I've seen and read. One of the things I find interesting about his particular brand of eccentricity is how he tends to take literally what most people would assume to be metaphors.
conferencereport 4 years ago
Yes, I agree that it might be a good strategy to keep in mind the possibility that sometimes those things which society commonly consider to be metaphors, aren't....On the other hand, don't we have to use such a technique judiciously? If it actually IS a metaphor, it might be important to see it as such to maintain a good grasp of what is real.
2bsirius 4 years ago
Absolutely, and from my understanding of cognitive linguistics (Lakoff and Johnson etc) much more of our understanding is metaphorical than previously imagined. I have heard figures up to 95% quoted, which is really exciting.
conferencereport 4 years ago