Nature is a Language

[sus]

Virtually everything is a metaphor from the natural world if you think about it. All our abstractions come from grounded material metaphors.

 

[version]

I don't like this framing because we take all our words from nature. There's nothing special or sinister about the private sector doing thing except some vague "capitalism bad" vibe

I don't think we do. A word like 'company' isn't a direct reference to the natural world that conjures the kind of mental imagery a word like 'cloud' does.

 

[sus]

Hmmm I am considering this

 

[Corpsey]

He sometimes claims he wrote the tempest you know

Reading Borges this week has me thinking that in a sense Luka DID write the tempest, as did I