Bear with me on a slight tangent as I loop back around into talking about virtual pets as emotional training for cloud agents and ambient intelligences within the technological environment of tomorrow.
“For any thing (object or event) we encounter in the world, we bring to bear a certain conceptual context, built up from our previous interaction with that thing or similar things. This context is called “aspectual shape”, and it provides a fundamental building block for many modern theories of Mind, Language Acquisition, and Cognitive Development. George Lakoff, a prominent Cognitive Linguist at Berkeley has founded his career on the idea that through embodied experience of the physical world and metaphorical extensions we can account for much of human conceptual structure. He has gone about the task of making our metaphorical extensions explicit in fields ranging from politics to mathematics, often revealing the curious bases for beliefs and convictions we held to be self-evident.
Informal application of similar methods will, I think, prove illuminating in the further discussion of Tamagotchi.”
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