Metaphors and Models in a Middle-World Mind

by Gopal Ramasammy-Cook (Career-Creative Coach, ZestWare)

Our experience of "reality" is mediated by the models and metaphors our brains construct. In the following video clip, Richard Dawkins describes how having evolved in the middle-world, that is the world mid-way between that of the atoms and that of the planets, determines the kinds of mental models we create. He also compares our model-making endeavors with that of other animals such as dogs, bats and swallows.





Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, ethologist (animal behavior researcher), and author of popular science books such as The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The Extended Phenotype, and The God Delusion.

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