Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is There a Pattern to the Metaphors We Use in Language?
Because of plasticity, you cound imagine, you know, shaping that extra one to be doing something really quite different. Ah, the circuitry might look quite similar to to what's present in the original area. Maybe it's getting some of the same kind of input, but it wouldn't be doing the same exact thing. It would be, ah, doing something similar, but on a different type of input. And this is an idea that i'm sort of elaborating on, an idea that am, that came from work, george lake offin and mark johnson, m who noticed that am, there's a pattern to the metaphors we use in language. Am, so
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