THE METAPHORE
Words, signs, names, emblems, tokens, symbols, labels, brands, sometimes mere jots or stamps. Not seldom on the fly invented words on a drunken night. Often times meticulously thought out new prominent academic names for a break-through new invention by scholars. Many times more maliciously used by politicians or ideologues trying to change peoples views about their own deeds and society. Poets at best make abundant contibutions, 1984 a prominant one, the natural boys in California 1948; the beat generation in the fifties sort of preinvented the iconic name Beatles. Sometimes words branded in shear violence into people´s foreheads. Otherwise better in mental swing vertigo changing every one’s perception in an instance. More often in thin brittle bible paper writings glued onto poetry, images, concepts, symbols, capricies, narratives happenings and all imaginable descriptions whatever possible holding in the mind eye or inside epic vast unfathomable unknowns, man’s unconscious use of word manipulation in total everything human mind ever have dealt with. The swing of unimaginable visions.
WORDS ARE LABLES
We think not by means of words per se. We think with what words represents, concepts meaning and symbols. A concept of one word might branch out in associated threads and clouds and connect with other related concepts often in thousands. Sometimes like metaphorical visualized fuzzyness of meaning. Also we think with what there in all possible aspects there is. We simulate every aspects of the world. Spatial, our eye’s visions, olifactory, bodily movements, a theater full of inestimable relations in space time mind and beyond.
ORIGIN OF METAPHORE
Every new word is of origin a metaphore. Describe a new phenomena you have to come up with an as-if-word. Sound mimicking onomatopoetic words like pling or swoosh, are sound metaphores of their own. All words are a likeness, a simile to what they try to convey. Even prosody and music have a metaphorical reality. Without prosody your talk would sound early computor speech. Without metaphore music wouldn’t tuch you. Music metaphore tells us a story evoking emotion. And the reason you don´t recognize every word as metaphore is because old words has transformed themselves through time, reused in an other context perhap, their role has shifted, shortened and grinded by use like rocks in the wind rain and sea and totally changed their pronounciation or spelling into unrecognitioning. Every word is a metaphore.
It doesn´t stop there. Whole expressions are metaphores. A complete story can be a metaphore {I leave it at that for the moment. We enter the world of myth}
Do we think by means of words or images? A famous question put to Einstein many times. This question contains assumtions. Are there no other ways of thinking? I suggest pondering concepts and patterns instead. Combine concept and pattern and what do you get; diffuse, smooth, rugged universal perhapsical images. We think by means of concepts, or fuzzy impressions (adding here more. not complete). Given the above on words; Words as mere flat lables, agreed apon combinations of sounds and signs, letters for these. The word, the label points to it’s underlying meaning, the concept, the cloud, the threads of associations, the mulitude of aspects that constitutes what it referes to. We think by means of concepts and patterns. Not by avatars like words.
THINKING IS ANALOGY
Douglas Hofstadter — author of Gödel, Escher, Bach — repeatedly says things like, “analogy is the core of cognition,” “the brain makes analogies without letup,” and “analogy is the fuel and fire of thinking.”
To be continued and iterated..