percipocracy

We have repeatedly seen how analogies and mappings give rise to secondary meanings that ride on the backs of primary meanings. We have seen that even primary meanings depend on unspoken mappings, and so in the end, we have seen that all meaning is mapping-mediated, which is to say, all meaning comes from analogies.

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Douglas Hofstadter, I am a Strange Loop, 2007

my mind is blowing up! (yeah, even that is an analogy, would “my neurons interacting between my pre-frontal cortex, temporal lobe, wernicke’s area, and hippocampus were above a normal range of creating electric current?”)