>>6106741>metaphor>"A THING CAN BE ANY OTHER THING"I read this article authored by Cormac McCarthy, it is a very deep and profound epistemological and linguistic investigation into the nature of memory, metaphor and meaning.
https://nautil.us/the-kekul-problem-236574/>"You may have read a thousand books and be able to discuss any one of them without remembering a word of the text..."It is intriguing for instance how you can critique and recollect events from say a book or a film, without actually remembering a single line of exact text or dialogue from the film or book itself etc. Cormac McCarthy describes these unconscious processes as "the machine for operating an animal" yet human words transcend animal communication (eg warning or mating calls etc) because of metaphor, "a thing can be another thing" etc. Cormac McCarthy then theorises that these metaphorical dream-pattern processes transcend language, enabling humans at times to derive insights that they cannot articulate or describe with mere words.
>some unknown thinker sat up one night in his cave and said: Wow. One thing can be another thing. Yes. Of course that’s what we are saying. Except that he didnt say it because there was no language for him to say it in. For the time being he had to settle for just thinking it. And when did this take place? (...) 