Metaphor
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And if there is an answer to that that happens outside the professional framework of journalism, it makes no sense to take a professional
metaphor
and apply it to this distributed class.
So to use the sheep metaphor, it's like we now have electric sheep that have a mind of their own.
Let me show you this again in the
metaphor
of our beloved dog here.
It's the well-accepted
metaphor
for the interface between humans and AI.
(Ethereal music) (Pitch rises with acceleration) Cars are a
metaphor
of time, distance and journey, of setting out and returning, of anticipation and adventure, but, at the same time, of intelligence and complexity, of human intuition and accomplishment.
In high school, I found a community of
metaphor
magicians and truth-telling poets in an organization called Urban Word NYC.
So now, if you take this
metaphor
[of] genome as program seriously, you have to consider that Chris Anderson is a computer-fabricated artifact, as is Jim Watson, Craig Venter, as are all of us.
And in convincing yourself that this
metaphor
is true, there are lots of similarities between genetic programs and computer programs that could help to convince you.
There was no
metaphor.
To think about culture variation, let's try a different
metaphor.
So I created the gray rhino
metaphor
to meet what I felt was an urgent need.
The
metaphor
that I like to use is the
metaphor
of the circular mill.
When we talk about bottom-up, decentralized phenomena, the ant colony is the classic metaphor, because, no individual ant knows what it's doing, but collectively ants are able to reach incredibly intelligent decisions.
And the journey, I believe, is a
metaphor
for all of our journeys.
And I'd like to make a metaphor, but I don't have one really.
I didn't actually realize it at the time I got it, but it would later become a powerful
metaphor
for my work.
And I'm like, "What is this jacked-up
metaphor?
Over the roughly one-and-a-half millennia of its existence, chess has been known as a tool of military strategy, a
metaphor
for human affairs, and a benchmark of genius.
How do you prevent either the media's interpretation of your work or the scientific community's interpretation of the implications of your work, kind of like the Mozart metaphor, where, "Oh, MRIs show that play enhances your intelligence.
There's a sex therapist in New Jersey named Christine Hyde, who taught me this great
metaphor
she uses with her clients.
In the book, I use this really silly
metaphor
of difficult feelings as sleepy hedgehogs that you are fostering until you can find a way to set them free by turning toward them with kindness and compassion.
The
metaphor
I like to use, if you'd let me geek out for a moment, is the notion of a theater.
You like the urn metaphor, so I'm going to use that to explain it.
I will tell you a little bit about irrational behavior, and I want to start by giving you some examples of visual illusion as a
metaphor
for rationality.
I want you to think about illusion as a
metaphor.
They use Mobutu as
metaphor.
What's interesting is the
metaphor
that defines the relationship between the individual and the natural world.
And I thought, what a wonderful metaphor, isn't it?
As opposed to you could see George Bush, well, what's the
metaphor
there?
But
metaphor
is a way of thought before it is a way with words.
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