Bipin Indurkhya in his book Metaphor and Cognition stated that the purpose of
metaphor is to transfer attributes from a source concept to a target concept.
Before reading any further, do this thought experiment. Name as many
relationships as you can between between the fog and a housecat?
I'll provide the answer in my next email.
~PM.Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:33:07 -0400
Subject: Re: [agi] ONE EXAMPLE
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John G. Rose <[email protected]> wrote:The core of functional creativity
though could be that ability to
variationally morph chains of projective operational modeling
----------------- Well this is one of the roles of metaphors. To say that some
thing or some effect is like some thing or some effect in another domain is to
enable the thinker to think about something new. So if you don't know what I
mean by conceptual relativism, for example, I can start to explain that is like
philosophical relativism. By learning how people mistake what my metaphor was
meant to evoke I can add corrections or further meaning. Yes, I say, (in
response to something Loosemore said) concepts are *related* but by
*relativism* I go a step further and say that a concept that we have in mind
may operate differently when we use it in another context. So, for example,
not only can word-concepts be categorized according to some pre-conceived
scheme of characterization, but they can also be used in a characterization of
other word concepts. That is an example of conceptual relativism, and by
understanding conceptual relativism, you can enable a method to evoke a way to
get people to think outside the box - if they choose to take that step.
The problem with the use of a concept-word like "metaphor" is that it can be
used in a pre-conceived scheme to categorize concepts just as well as it can be
used to produce genuine novelty in one's thinking. Here I am saying that the
real value of the concept of "metaphor" is that it can be used to help people -
or computers - to think in novel ways.
Jim Bromer
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