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In the ancient world there was a lot of respect for unintended consequences, and there was a very healthy sense of caution, reflected in the Tree of Knowledge, in Pandora's Box, and especially in the myth of Prometheus that's been so important in recent metaphors about technology.
But then he also used a lot of metaphors and visual words.
And when that happens, the feeling is ecstatic and we reach for metaphors of up and down to explain these feelings.
We turn facts into similes and metaphors, and even fantasies.
They listen to his metaphors and analogies, and they start learning these little things that if they practice enough becomes the key to magic.
And what it reminds us is that language is created by people, and people are messy and we're complex and we use metaphors and slang and jargon and we do this 24/7 in many, many languages, and then as soon as we figure it out, we change it up.
But perhaps what's really at stake are three more intangible M's: mechanisms, models, metaphors.
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses.
Metaphors are art, not science, but they can still feel right or wrong.
There's a paradox to metaphors.
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
Some metaphors include the words "like" or "as." "Sweet as honey," "strong as a tree."
One of the clearest places to find good metaphors is in poems.
Metaphors aren't always about our human lives and feelings.
Metaphors give words a way to go beyond their own meaning.
Not surprisingly, synesthesia is more common in artists who excel at making metaphors, like novelist Vladimir Nabokov, painter David Hockney, and composers Billy Joel and Lady Gaga.
But why do the rest of us non-synesthetes understand metaphors like "sharp cheese" or "sweet person"?
One of the most difficult things to keep in mind about evolution is that when we say things like, "Genes want to make more copies of themselves," or even, "natural selection," we're actually using metaphors.
And we ended up relying heavily on the use of metaphors, like gold.
Now, metaphors can play a crucial role in showing how the pieces fit together, because they reveal the desired shape of the pattern, based on an idea that the listener already understands.
I'm playing around with metaphors.
So our metaphors equate the experience of loving someone to extreme violence or illness.
When I first started researching romantic love, I found these madness metaphors everywhere.
In this case, we're talking about metaphors about pain and addiction and madness.
In their book, "Metaphors We Live By," linguists Mark Johnson and George Lakoff suggest a really interesting solution to this dilemma, which is to change our metaphors.
They argue that metaphors really do shape the way we experience the world, and that they can even act as a guide for future actions, like self-fulfilling prophecies.
Linguists talk about metaphors as having entailments, which is essentially a way of considering all the implications of, or ideas contained within, a given metaphor.
Or, we fret about digital surveillance with metaphors from the past.
And he expressed his unshakeable convictions in everyday language, in metaphors, in stories.
We tackle these topics through songs, not unlike the one you just heard, simple definitions and metaphors.
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