13 January 2012

A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

I keep banging on about the importance of the fundamental insights in Lakoff and Johnson's Philosophy in the Flesh. Well here's a nice brief article with an introduction to why I may not be wrong:
our rationality is greatly influenced by our bodies in large part via an extensive system of metaphorical thought.

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