I was responding to this comment: “The linguistic metaphors we use, at least, to talk about ideas and abstractions, are never more than one, maybe two, steps a

I was responding to this comment: “The linguistic metaphors we use, at least, to talk about ideas and abstractions, are never more than one, maybe two, steps away from a hand moving or rearranging something” And the Glasgow scale is exactly that, how people physically respond to stimulus with a body movement, and subsequent complex body movements - eg just humans vaguely deciding - is how we treat for levels of consciousness. It’s not scientific at all is the point and is very “folk-physics mental model with objects” to the OPs original assertion