metaphor

notes: conceptual accessibility, and a formal approach to metaphorical analysis metaphor too much time and effort is spent arguing the merits and pitfalls of individual metaphors, when the root cause – a failure to adequately define and formalise ‘metaphorical-analysis’ – remains unaddressed Undoubtedly, metaphor is innate to human experience, and cognition. ‘There is something that it is’ to intuitively perceive and consider universal phenomena by metaphor – to consider one kind of universal phenomenon in terms of the characteristics of another almost-entirely different kind of phenomenon....

Metaphor is ‘well-formed abstraction’, and not all abstraction is well-formed. Consider metaphor refers to a specific subset of abstraction, such that while all metaphors are abstractions, not all abstractions are metaphors. the metaphor subset of abstraction is subject to increased constraints on membership: the space-of-all metaphor is smaller than the space-of-all abstraction Consider that, what we commonly call a metaphor, is often another special-domain instance of the metaphor – and that what we mean when we use a metaphor, is always the bits which are common between, and never the bits which are uncommon between....

notes: on cognition and computation; conceptual accessibility; and a formal approach to metaphorical analysis 1 metaphor too much time and effort is spent arguing the merits and pitfalls of individual metaphors, when the root cause – a failure to adequately define and formalise ‘metaphorical-analysis’ – remains unaddressed Undoubtedly, metaphor is innate to human experience, and cognition. ‘There is something that it is’ to intuitively perceive and consider universal phenomena by metaphor – to consider one kind of universal phenomenon in terms of the characteristics of another almost-entirely different kind of phenomenon 2....

“side-effects of cross-contextual de-duplication” de-duplication is sufficient to account for: Lateral thinking Re-contextualisation Generalisation Contextually, objectively, similar entry-point to common constituent Metaphor Contextually, objectively, dissimilar entry-point to common constituent Lateral, general, metaphorical problem-solving “interpretive contexts evolve to address a fundamental problem with abstract information (map): minimal-viable distinction” As map complexity (and lifecycle) evolves 1, and interpretation occurs across multiple interpretive contexts simultaneously, de-duplication also occurs across distinct interpretive contexts....

De-duplication refers to a pattern of behaviour which evolved to address plural enumeration, a problem innate to map. “plural enumeration refers to an inherent side-effect of persisted interpreted representation – many maps can refer to the same territory – and without reconciliation, persisted “plurally enumerated” representations are operationally untenable” “consider the difference between a log file, and a database (see: on persisted representation)” De-duplication conditionally validates, corrects, consolidates, and optimises, plurally enumerated persisted representations – across all scopes of map (see: map lifecycle)...