English has two categories of verbs: intransitive and transitive. If you use an intransitive verb — “yet it moves” — the Metaphor Nazi will catch you coming: claiming you are representing volition.
If you use a transitive verb — “it is moved by gravity” — the Metaphor Nazi will catch you going: claiming an agent/patient relation, where the agent is probably (metaphorically) God (!), or whatever God is a metaphor for. And we have from Ecclesiastes (the verse in praise of the Metaphor Nazi): http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/59.html#:~:text=If%20there%20be%20nothing%20new%20(1)%3A%20Compare%20Ecclesiastes%201.9,new%20thing%20under%20the%20sun.%22 <http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/59.html#:~:text=If there be nothing new (1): Compare Ecclesiastes 1.9,new thing under the sun."> Ecclesiastes 1.9: "The thing that hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun." To which the scientist (note small “s”) would like to assert “the language of mechanics is not English; speaking it is a new practice available to people to participate in”. But let Shakespeare have the last word: If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd, Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss The second burthen of a former child! O, that record could with a backward look, Even of five hundred courses of the sun, Show me your image in some antique book, Since mind at first in character was done! That I might see what the old world could say To this composed wonder of your frame; Whether we are mended, or whe'r better they, Or whether revolution be the same. O! sure I am, the wits of former days To subjects worse have given admiring praise. Eric > On May 9, 2021, at 11:36 AM, Prof David West <[email protected]> wrote: > > The ball accelerated is clearly a metaphor as it implies that the ball is > doing a specific thing, that the ball has behavior and probably volition. > This is clearly not what you literally mean. > > davew > > > On Sat, May 8, 2021, at 4:57 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: >> "The ball accelerated at approximately 32 feet per second squared at sea >> level in a vacuum." >> >> doesn't seem to be a metaphor to me. >> >> --- >> Frank C. Wimberly >> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >> Santa Fe, NM 87505 >> >> 505 670-9918 >> Santa Fe, NM >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2021, 3:07 PM <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Listen, Fella! >> >> >> >> It’s metaphors all the way down! >> >> >> >> [shoe thrown] >> >> >> >> n >> >> >> >> Nick Thompson >> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ >> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwordpress.clarku.edu%2fnthompson%2f&c=E,1,76cwsDofsJZfToBxaQU6zR5cllp_k59wtln_iQtSrD8ozjyEN9kt0FPUs4RnuGnWMKFW-nOw3wJjMgAgCJAkSTlh3C3YKbI75yNyUMUvvw,,&typo=1> >> >> >> >> From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> On Behalf Of Gary Schiltz >> Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2021 1:36 PM >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Morphogenisis >> >> >> >> First of all, it's just a metaphor (ducking, the shoe barely missing my >> head) :-) >> >> >> >> Second of all, that description of animal development sure sounds to me like >> "following a script". >> >> >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 2:23 PM <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> This struck me: >> >> >> >> When animals develop, they don’t follow a script. Instead, responding to >> their environment, the cells negotiate and feel their way toward a final >> form. A fertilized egg divides, and divides again, creating a hollow ball of >> cells called a blastula; genes instruct these cells to release chemicals, >> and other cells, reacting to those chemical concentrations, decide to >> migrate elsewhere or to develop into specific types of tissue. Other >> influences—oxygen, nutrients, hormones, sometimes toxins—further shape >> gestation. >> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/persuading-the-body-to-regenerate-its-limbs?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_050821&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd678d924c17c104801f684&cndid=40835928&hasha=1dc6f15a30be2d4712fae5f0e5a9a679&hashb=5e4befc88214fadc869224d7cb34d55f51451bc7&hashc=0c6ef6b7bc8221288e1f4a4ca0116d78a21ebdbe47949488640c7c54c93120fb&esrc=AUTO_PRINT&utm_term=TNY_Daily >> >> <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/persuading-the-body-to-regenerate-its-limbs?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_050821&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bd678d924c17c104801f684&cndid=40835928&hasha=1dc6f15a30be2d4712fae5f0e5a9a679&hashb=5e4befc88214fadc869224d7cb34d55f51451bc7&hashc=0c6ef6b7bc8221288e1f4a4ca0116d78a21ebdbe47949488640c7c54c93120fb&esrc=AUTO_PRINT&utm_term=TNY_Daily> >> >> >> First, note the reliance on psychological terms. This is the sort of >> passage that would stimulate my teasing Hywel with, “So you see, Hywel, >> psychology really IS the mother of all sciences.” And don’t any of you DARE >> to come back at me with, “It’s just a metaphor.” >> >> >> >> Second, which of these two models encapsulates more closely what you wizards >> mean by computation. Is carrying out an algorithm more like “computation” >> or is “building a limb”? Is a salamander’s limb “computed”? If so, who >> computes it, or is that a violation of the language of computation. I >> know. 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