The cognitive primitives of abstraction are merely reflections of external phenomena (e.g. real-world physics), absorbed through experience
Our most abstract thoughts are still expressed in visual & proprioceptive terms. They are a reflection of our bodies, senses, & environment
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We see the world as if in a mirror, darkly
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Yep
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Everything is an extension of our own bodies in one way or another.
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A powerful insight. Here's the more-than-140 character version, in case anyone wants to dig deeper. http://shu.bg/tadmin/upload/storage/161.pdf …
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How proprioceptive? My understanding is that means brain knows where our hands and feet are spatially. Your use sounds different?
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I think George Lakoff and Mark Johnson would agree with you. Papers you might like: http://comphacker.org/comp/engl338/files/2014/02/A9R913D.pdf … or https://metanet.icsi.berkeley.edu/
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Definitely. Embodied cognition is sensible.
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