Deconstructing metaphors
Meu comentario postado no Pharyngula:
Louis Charles MorelliJune 23, 2014
I think that metaphors are invented words or references for describing the little that a person can see/touch from a whole that he/she can not see/touch. The little thing that one see is used for trying to explains the whole. It can works when the whole is simplest, but it never works when the whole is complex, because the little saw thing does not repeats the whole image/functioning.
The most astounding metaphors that I know is the Genesis account, at the Bible. My personal investigation has suggested an astronomical model of the state of the world before life’s origins, which I can explain each small detail with words and concepts from Physics, Astronomy, Genetics, etc., and the theories of thermodynamics. But, my big surprise was discovering that we describe it also using the symbols used by the authors of Adam/Eve and the Paradise. The snake, the tree, the primordial shapes of the male and female forces, a closed system as a paradise that is eternally under the state of orgasm.. And calculating how that state of the world could creates biological systems inside it, we see an event just as described in The Fall, but explained with words from the second law of thermodynamics and the process of entropy creating chaos and developing into order. .
This is a fascinating discover, the problem now is testing it, if right or wrong, and it is scientifically falsifiable. My suggestion is that the ancient astronomical state of the world is registered into our RNA/DNA which are at the center of our neurons, so, certain altered states of brain can produces flashes of memories, images, at random, but, the observer needs to connect those flashes into a whole picture. The result can be the metaphorical description at Bible ( far away from the real picture) or the metaphorical description of human nowaday knowledge ( far away also but a little bit closer).
Metaphors has origins at any human baby stage, when imagination take places of natural reasoning. This process is projected as big wave encompassing the whole human species still baby stage of collective consciousness. But it must be deconstructed like the adult shape always deconstructs the infantile imaginations. For instance, the metaphors about genes and DNA:
Each lateral pair of nucleotides is a specific and unique reproduction of a functional system that’s the building block of all natural systems, from atoms to galaxies to human bodies. Like each human being is a specific and unique copy with some different detail from the others 8 billions human beings. The final product of each internal DNA chemical reactions is like the final product of each human species activity. So, is it right to say that the whole set of human kind is a “code”, or a computer program? These names avoid the student to understand the real thing. ( from Matrix/DNA Theory)
