Networks between concepts

from node of thought2019-01-21#5c452bf1aff09e0000bb1a70

If a metaphor is heavily developed within a metaphor space (lots of Networks between concepts), it can have the effect of providing a warp portal to other spaces, facilitating the joining of distant ones

• Network of Concepts

• Conceptual Network

• knowledge network, I sense a difference in nuance.

• There is a nuance of "objective" implicit in "knowledge".

• What is being discussed here is subjective Weltanschauung (philosophy), world view, world description.

  • Uexküll's Ringworld Theory
  • Associative Networks is closer.
  • What suggestion is the situation is connected by "recollection" and "virtual viewing" of the world.
  • For example, right now the reader here has "drop and break" connected to "glass cup".
    • But in the future, people living in zero-gravity or low-gravity colonies will not connect this association because they can retrieve it before it cracks.
    • Even in a world where unbreakable plastic cups dominate history and "glass cups" are only found in museums, the associations don't connect.
  • Related: Understanding as the ability to predict the future.

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