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So how do you think about abstract concepts, like morality, which have no visual structure?
by wallace_f 9y ago
So how do you think about abstract concepts, like morality, which have no visual structure?
- SideburnsOfDoom 9y agoBy analogy? They don't necessary have verbal structure either. Use of spatial analogies for abstract concepts is common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_metaphor
- wallace_f 9y agoI'm convinced that different people have very different experiences thinking about the world.
- psyc 9y agoMorality is actually purely visual to me. It's daydreams about scenarios, their outcomes, even the expression on people's faces. Just about everything is visual to me.