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Summary: An Interesting Book
Review: What can I say as a person getting a biology degree that is interested in how the mind works? Language has been an interest of mine ever since I took a Metaphysics class last your as an elective. Coming from a natural science background I tended to think of everything as a competition. When I was introduced to the concept of actual absolute truths,I figured these must be some product of the actual mechanisms involved in mental representations. Not adapted traits in the ecological sense but by some other extrapolating process perhaps that of exaption presented by Gould. I also was familiar with Jacques Derrida a philosopher in language that I found to be most fascinating. I can feel my two interest above are going to meld in someway epistemologically. Metaphors we live by was a good start.The idea that our mental representations are metaphors that spring from our (perhaps) "prior" conception of space, time, material substances is an interesting one. However, it does have shades of other research out there. For example the concept of conceptual blending that I was introduced in "The way we think". These professors writing this book come from a linguistic and philosophy background I believe so take note. However, I think it would be valuable to people in all fields.
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