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[soulchanger]

"Poems are rafts clutched at by men drowning in inadequate minds."

- Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral MindI'm still enjoying this book - I'm a little over halfway through - but this line in particular just jumped out at me. The idea that language evolves as a series of metaphors, always increasing in

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[novalis]

Hofstadter also thinks that metaphor is key to cognition.

Gladwell notes that IQ tests test categorization rather than metaphor.

[king_duncan]

I should really check this book out- it was just mentioned in passing in a play I saw just before I met you.