>>> According to Lakoff and Johnson, an embodied philosophy "would show the laws of thought to be metaphorical, not logical; truth would be a metaphorical construction, not an attribute of objective reality." <<<

Hmmm, very sixties. But I think logic, mathematics, and number are kinda fundamental to the structure of reality. No way are they metaphores (for what?). They could not be other than they are. Sure, it's great that Lakoff emphasises that mind and body are one. But I do not see how Lakoff's ideas help us to understand why there is something it is like to be conscious.

It seems to me he is in the game of explaining what kind of processing our mind/brain does, that we have the abilities we do. But he does not address the hard problem -- why and how is some, but not all, of that processing accompanied by conscious experience and sensation?

There's a A Talk With George Lakoff at the Edge site.

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