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The Apollo mission, which has become a kind of
metaphor
for technology's capacity to solve big problems, met these criteria.
It's a primitive form of abstraction, and we now know this happens in the fusiform gyrus of the brain, because when that's damaged, these people lose the ability to engage in Bouba Kiki, but they also lose the ability to engage in
metaphor.
And I think it's a basis of many uniquely human abilities like abstraction,
metaphor
and creativity.
This story of horrific violence followed by a fumbled approach by federal and local authorities as they tried to engage civil society, who has been very well engaged by a criminal organization, is a perfect
metaphor
for what's happening in Mexico today, where we see that our current understanding of drug violence and what leads to it is probably at the very least incomplete.
And this was the idea: I'm going to use a simplistic
metaphor
to explain to you this complicated concept.
Now, this game of Monopoly can be used as a
metaphor
for understanding society and its hierarchical structure, wherein some people have a lot of wealth and a lot of status, and a lot of people don't; they have a lot less wealth and a lot less status and a lot less access to valued resources.
So let me show you one instrument we've created, one of many, and this instrument is called "Twilight," and it's meant to go with this
metaphor
of pulling a sound out of the ground.
So, remember the campfire
metaphor.
This could become practically relevant, not just as a
metaphor
for greed, but as an illustration of what happens if you create a powerful optimization process and give it misconceived or poorly specified goals.
Well, fortunately, we have a very helpful metaphor: the desktop interface on your computer.
But Murray Gell-Mann yesterday talked about emergent properties; another name for them could be "architecture" as a
metaphor
for taking the same old material and thinking about non-obvious, non-simple ways of combining it.
The branching scheme of the tree was, in fact, such a powerful
metaphor
for conveying information that it became, over time, an important communication tool to map a variety of systems of knowledge.
And finally, of course, also a very popular scientific metaphor, we can see trees being used to map all species known to man.
And trees ultimately became such a powerful visual
metaphor
because in many ways, they really embody this human desire for order, for balance, for unity, for symmetry.
And a new
metaphor
is currently emerging, and it's currently replacing the tree in visualizing various systems of knowledge.
And this new
metaphor
is the
metaphor
of the network.
And Llull was actually the precursor, the very first one who created the
metaphor
of science as a tree, a
metaphor
we use every single day, when we say, "Biology is a branch of science," when we say, "Genetics is a branch of science."
But even though recent, this
metaphor
of the network, is really already adopting various shapes and forms, and it's almost becoming a growing visual taxonomy.
And these are actually 15 different typologies I've been collecting over time, and it really shows the immense visual diversity of this new
metaphor.
You probably couldn't find more disparate topics, yet they are using the same metaphor, the same visual model, to map the never-ending complexities of its own subject.
But networks are not just a scientific
metaphor.
The amount of floor space an individual has in their home has been steadily increasing, and I think that's like a
metaphor
for the choice we've made as a culture.
And this is of course a completely irresistible
metaphor
to a novelist, because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper can change the actual world in which we're actually living, which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".
So seductive was this idea, so potent the
metaphor
of lock and key and killing something, that it really swept through biology.
What's really at stake perhaps here is not the medicine itself but a
metaphor.
But when a scientist is building a model, he or she is trying to show you the world in
metaphor.
Chris Anderson: I really like this
metaphor.
That's because the gene is such a dominant metaphor, again, to use that same word, in medicine today, that we think the genome will drive the personalization of medicine.
I'd like to share with you a piano metaphor, to have you have a better understanding of how ASL works.
LEGO is just a
metaphor.
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