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> ... just another metaphor – a story we tell to make sense of something we don’t actually understand. And like all the metaphors that preceded it, it will certainly be cast aside at some point – either replaced by another metaphor or, in the end, replaced by actual knowledge.
#ThinkingMetaphors #UsingMetaphors #MetaphorControl #MetaphorLens
We can't see or think without them I guess...
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> Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For more than half a century now, psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists and other experts on human behaviour have been asserting that the human brain works like a computer.
I.A.Richards recommended using a metaphor for as long as its useful then moving on, the correspondence only works for a certain time and area...
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> The information processing (IP) metaphor of human intelligence now dominates human thinking, both on the street and in the sciences... what price have we paid for leaning so heavily on this particular crutch for so long? The IP metaphor, after all, has been guiding the writing and thinking of a large number of researchers in multiple fields for decades. At what cost?
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
#IPMetaphor #MetaphorControl
#MetaphorCrutch #PrepossesionLens #Prepossessions
/HT @emilygorcenski -
> Richards divided the class into three groups. Each group was asked to write a paragraph describing language. However, Richards provided each group with its first sentence.
Group A had to begin with “Language is like a tree”;
Group B with
“Language is like a river”;
Group C with
“Language is like a building.”...Our discussion centered on how metaphors control what we say, and to what extent what we say controls what we see.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly with #IaRichards on #MetaphorControl