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If you think my bicycle metaphors are too much ...

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psychology · 6.1

If you've ever heard me on a rant, you may know that I can go down a few rabbit trails when trying to make some obscure point through metaphors. I just posted about  language being a reverse bicycle, as one example (interesting to me, but we'll see if anyone else agrees).

But sometimes I even shake my head at myself. Today is one of those days.

You may have seen this perspective taking meme that is one of my favorites:
 
and of course, I like to take this to another level, so here is the version I like better:



And of course, one can extrude this example even further by moving into another dimension. And someone did by challenging AI to navigator a 4D universe: https://youtu.be/1BDYSxsVMAE?si=jj0PWlJ8mFewhmQg

I'll never be able to use this as a metaphor to explain anything except why it is that nobody likes my metaphors. You don't even have to understand this video fully, but watch it to see if it tickles your brain. It tickled mine.

But then, I live in the Meta-Phorth Dimension.

https://youtu.be/1BDYSxsVMAE?si=jj0PWlJ8mFewhmQg
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