Philosophy in the Flesh

Unconscious Connections

The Mind   |   Lauren Bausch  |   May 31, 2012, 5:10 pm

Recently, UC Berkeley Professor George Lakoff and I had a riveting discussion during his office hours. When he described his second book co-authored with Mark Johnson, what immediately came to mind was karma.[1] Philosophy in the Flesh asserts that sensory perception is experienced through the mediation of neural connections that conceptualize and reason metaphorically. [...]