With all due respect -- I have looked through these missives and this prose in vain for any deep examination of metaphor.
For background: the natural systems working group of INCOSE is studying metaphor as a fundamental skill for designers and engineers interested in transferring biological "solutions" to the world of design. One thing we have taken away: to transfer something via metaphor requires that the (system) attributes "drop away" and that the (systemic) relations are what is transferred between the domains. We put a few papers in this folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j4sdk4jflrxsv45/AADEcCHI9dO4n3AtqrYutuy6a?dl=0 The work of Dedre Gentner seems fundamental to us. Curt On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 11:46 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Dear Friammers, > > > > I understand that some members of the Mother Church are getting together > soon for a discussion on the role of Metaphor in Scientific Thought. Hard > for me to imagine a meeting that I would regret missing more than this > one. I hope that some of you will post some of your deliberations under > this thread so that those of us in the Friam diaspora can have some of the > value of them. > > > > FWLIW, The attached PDF is from a book manuscript, pieces of which have > been kicking around for more than 40 years, which Eric Charles has been > trying unsuccessfully to get me to pull together into something > publishable. If any of you is curious, the text will help you to understand > the things I said in the recent complexity discussion and their relation to > the “levels” discussion and the metaphor discussion that follows. The > specific discussion on metaphor is late in the pdf, so that if that is what > interests you, you can safely skip to the first section on models. For me, > a model is just a scientific metaphor. Full stop. > > > > If anybody had comments to share, we, of course, would be deeply grateful. > > > > There are more chapters. > > > > Nick > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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