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As humans trying to understand the non-human world, analogy and metaphor are the only tools we have to comprehend phenomenon that we otherwise don't have access
by notarobot123 3y ago
As humans trying to understand the non-human world, analogy and metaphor are the only tools we have to comprehend phenomenon that we otherwise don't have access to. What's wrong with using language in this way?
- Aqueous 3y agoIt’s misleading and gives people the wrong idea about plants?
- notarobot123 3y agoIs it any more meaningful to speak about organisms as autonomous mechanical agents? Those are metaphors too. Human language is metaphors the whole way down and science isn't immune to the leaky abstractions of semantic ambiguity.