I really dislike structuralist metaphors (vertical, horizontal, channel, platform). They mislead a lot. But sometimes there's no choice.
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not a whole lot else written about it in pop lit... you'd have to go to research lit for more
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do you dislike spatial metaphors in general? I feel these point to a common neural architecture..but could vary, sure
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@AudiByrneHaema no just platonic-structuralist ones. I like fluid-based metaphors for eg, which are also spatial
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my beliefs about a neural architecture 4 metaphors can be traced to ideas by Pinker, Gentner casasanto.com/papers/Casasan
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