http://www.cocomment.com/comments/tellio Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-24T06:17:45.692+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=tellio&conv=803453&comment_id=15632337 Terry Elliott I would certainly read Lakoff and Johnson's Philosophy in the Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought. In a nutshell they point to the unconscious conceptual systems we all have and how it shapes common sense and reason. It is a remarkable book in that it is very accessible. One of the assertions they make is that we categorize unconsciously because of the way we are embodied. For example, we say, "On the one hand ... but on the other hand." We tend to think in dichotomies because we are symmetrical. Our "thinkings" arise from our embodiments. Enjoy. It certainly has made me undergo some rethinkings. 2007-06-15T03:06:21.280+02:00 2007-06-15T03:06:21.280+02:00