Disney/MATTERHORN/Switzerland Mashup #12

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Sunbow+Rainbow Cloud [Saas Fee, Switzerland]

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Geneva+Holograph+Pattern Inlay

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Consciousness is an Analog of the World

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world.  It is built with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world… Consider the language we use to describe conscious processes.  The most prominent group of words used to describe mental events are visual.  We ‘see’ solutions to problems, the best of which may be ‘brilliant’, and the person ‘brighter’ or ‘clear-headed’ as opposed to ‘dull’, ‘fuzzy-minded’, or ‘obscure’ solutions.  These words are all metaphors and the mind-space to which they apply is a metaphor of actual space.

Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, p. 55

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