Metaphors help communicate ideas. I think everyone knows they are imperfect. Nobody thinks because we say the brain is a 'computer' that there are chips in th

Metaphors help communicate ideas. I think everyone knows they are imperfect. Nobody thinks because we say the brain is a 'computer' that there are chips in there. On other hand, scientist/philosophers that attempt to makeup 'new' words just to avoid this, sometimes make it worse and their ideas become even more obfuscated.