Hi,
From: Reed Konsler <konsler@ascat.harvard.edu>
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Well, can you ride a unicycle?
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No. :-)
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If you listen with your inner ear and act with your body then you
become the gyroscope and the upper sphere. But to do so is to be
inherently unstable on a more or less permanent basis. That's a
meta-<physical>-phor.
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I do not doubt that we can adapt to physically unstable conditions. My question was can humans live in constant cognative dissonance?
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>Let's not loose ourselves in the metaphor!
I don't understand. Loose what? How?
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You did exactly what I meant above -- you lost yourself (and the point) in the metaphor, thinking that showing that humans can maintain physical unstability somehow demonstrates their ability to maintain cognative dissonance as well. Metaphors and analogies are only useful is they apply directly (have a 1 to 1 correspondence in the areas that matter) to the topic at hand.
ERiC