This is very Off-Topic, but I can't resist, and I am pretty sure this is mentioned in at least one of the Lakoff books: the classification of Animals that Jorge Luis Borges claimed to have found in an old Chinese encyclopedia, *The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge.*
According to this, the Chinese classified animals into: a) those belonging to the emperor b) those that are embalmed c) tame or trained ones d) suckling pigs e) mermaids and sirens f) those that are fabulous g) stray dogs h) those included in the present classification i) frenzied ones j) innumerable ones k) those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush l) other ones m) those that have recently broken a water pitcher n) those that from a long way off look like flies On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 9:42:27 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > Same here. > > On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 2:36:54 PM UTC-4 jkn wrote: > >> I think I laughed out loud when I saw the first book of his(*) in a shop >> and knew I had to read it just from the title >> >> "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things" >> >> (*)OK, co-written >> >> On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 4:20:13 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: >> >> Philosophy in the Flesh - wow - that takes me back a long way. Amazon >> says I ordered it in 2001. I thought it was even earlier than that. My >> copy is in storage somewhere so I can't browse through it now. Lakoff has >> many books that are good reading. If you don't realize how deeply important >> metaphors are in everyday thinking and speaking, go out and get one or >> another of them. >> >> On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 5:40:22 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: >> >> On Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 10:54:42 PM UTC-5 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >> >> DeepWiki: Your AI-Powered Guide to GitHub Repositories: >> https://apidog.com/blog/deepwiki/ >> >> https://deepwiki.com/leo-editor/leo-editor >> >> >> Thanks for all your comments. Despite the OMG nature of the summary, I >> remain deeply skeptical about AI. >> >> Imo, it's a continuing challenge to remember the utterly alien nature of >> AI. They have no human bodies, emotions, or experiences. They are unlikely >> to serve us humanely. Instead, they serve their billionaire masters. See >> the reviews of Move Everything Forever >> <https://www.amazon.com/More-Everything-Forever-Overlords-Humanity/dp/1541619595> >> >> in Nature >> <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01145-5https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01145-5>and >> >> Science <https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu3202>. >> >> For a discussion of what the embodied mind entails, I recommend George >> Lakoff's Philosophy in the Flesh >> <https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Flesh-Embodied-Challenge-Western/dp/0465056741> >> . >> >> Edward >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/f931f383-3872-406b-8e74-7fdf23f05a21n%40googlegroups.com.
