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You Are Not Human: How Words Kill Book
No dark clouds literally blew in during the financial storm. No flowers actually bloomed during the Arab Spring. And when we save data to a cloud, our files don't really reside in a fluffy white mass of condensed water vapour. We use metaphor once every sixteen words. Using imagery to conceptualise abstract thought is wholly natural and has led to some of the greatest intellectual breakthroughs in history, from Adam Smith's `invisible hand' to James Watson's `building blocks of DNA'. But what if this power was turned against humanity? In Nazi Germany, Hitler depicted the Jews as vermin and 6 million people were killed. MRI scans show the brain struggles to differentiate between the literal and metaphoric, enabling the illegitimate to appear legitimate and good people to turn evil. Top … read more...
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