Brian Eno says in the article: "When we think about the process of arguing, we tend to then reconstrue our possibilities in terms of that metaphor. What Lakoff

Brian Eno says in the article: "When we think about the process of arguing, we tend to then reconstrue our possibilities in terms of that metaphor. What Lakoff and Johnson say is suppose that somebody had said argument is dance, suppose that was the dominant metaphor. So instead of it being seen you have the process where one person defeats another, it becomes a process where two people together make something beautiful between them. We could have that metaphor for argument, we don't." Along those lines, consider Dialogue Mapping using IBIS as a way for groups to move beyond competitive argument tearing each other down into cooperative construction of a map of ideas. http://cognexus.org/id41.htm http://cognexus.org/id41.htm "The icons represent the basic elements of the Dialogue Mapping™ grammar (called IBIS): Questions, Ideas, Pros and Cons." For a simple notation for IBIS to use without special software, see "Help! I have to think!: An approach to working through life’s big challenges" by KC Burgess Yakemovic.