Oliver Caviglioli on Graphic Organizers
The Informed Life
The spatial reasoning, abstract ideas and space metaphors
The fundamental mechanism, metaphors that we have are spatial in context. We talk about this thing's too slippery to hold on to. I want to construct an idea. They're all spatial metaphys. Infact, whenever we use a preposition in on near after, under all of them, unless we're talking about objects in the world, it's a metaphor. It's to pretend a make believe world - which is seemingly almost the only way we can deal with abstract ideas. Some nobel prize winners who've been down this route think this ento rinal cortex, thise grid cells that tell us where we physically are in space, is how we organize our ideas.
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