The Importance of Analogies in Communication

So lorance you were saying that analogies play a role in your communication and maybe even in talking to yourself but it sounded like it's not so much important to your creative process. What i'm wondering about is a very specific type of analogy which is anthropomorphisms when you talk about genes or cells or the nucleus as if it had intentions  is that something you do it's something i'm uncomfortable doing so yeah. I came from that Oxford Cambridge tradition particularly the Oxford tradition of anthropomorphizing it where genes have interest the self-exchangeYeah i'm all that at first sight it's very seductive because it is getting you a long way to understand something yes i love