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Mixing Mind and Metaphor
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Mixing Mind and Metaphor
She touched my hand what a chill I got
Her lips are like a volcano that’s hot
I’m proud to say that she’s my buttercup
I’m in love
I’m all shook up
X = Y
Shakespeare
Metaphor in daily life
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
Metaphor & Discovery
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
Albert Einstein
To unleash the mind’s creative energy, multiply metaphor by the square of the speed of thought.
Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Cogito ergo sum.
=
I think, therefore I am.
The mathematics of metaphor
Metaphor “consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else.”
Aristotle
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CC by crabchick
on Flickr
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Juliet is the sun.
Juliet = the sun
photo by lexrex on flickr
King of the Metaphorians
Mechanics
of Metaphor 1-111
Metaphor & Money
Mechanics of metaphor I
So, What Is Metaphor For?
Pattern recognition
photo by Otama on Flickr
Cogito ergo sum
=
Metaphor & Decision-making
When the flower arranger arranges the flowers, he also arranges his mind and the mind of the person who looks at the flowers.
Zen saying
Mechanics of metaphor II
JAMES GEARY
The bouba/kiki test
Conceptual synesthesia
The Roots of Metaphor
Mechanics of metaphor III
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The Stroop test
Cognitive dissonance
I shake things up, therefore I am.
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