thoughts on "metaphor" 

People tend to think that something being "metaphorical" (like furry/kin identity, or mysticism stuff, or lots of other things) makes it less real.

That's kind of deeply missing the point. Our brains are *entirely* metaphorical. Our perception of the world passes through billions of years of evolutionary processing and filtering, and is only tenuously connected to a deeper fundamental truth. Approximations are all we have.

thoughts on "metaphor" 

@starkatt Douglas Hofstadter has spent a career telling anyone and everyone who would listen that our brains, our entire trains of thought depend on blazing trails of analogy to understand things.

thoughts on "metaphor" 

@abbenm @starkatt
I think the study of semiotics has established that at least language is metaphor all the way down. At least if we accept Derrida's insights.
iep.utm.edu/met-phen/#H4

thoughts on "metaphor" 

@Irick @abbenm I 🖤 postrstructuralism

thoughts on "metaphor" 

@starkatt @abbenm
I <3 structuralism's structuralist meta-dialog too.
:3

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