we cut the world into pieces with words, distinctions, categories. analogy and metaphor sews things back together, reminds us of the inherent sameness of everything
Each image is the product of so many different associations and connections that it becomes, in away, unmoored. The overburdened images overwhelm their referents and float free. Losing their centeredness, their core of meaning, the images are liberated from the system of language; they no longer occupy fixed positions in a hierarchy of meaning, but
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Metaphors are interpreters—what interpreters do for bits and bytes, metaphors do for reality. They translate physical experiences into thoughts, ideas, insights and lessons that can be interpreted and understood, acted upon and shared.
The world is in flux, prompting people to build new stories and forms of communication in response. Creative possibilities are boundless as old narratives break down and new ones emerge.
LinkThe problem with the machine as a metaphor is that it is claustrophobic; all that passes through and out of it is accounted for by a precise and unrelenting algebra