Sa. Mulaik, THE METAPHORIC ORIGINS OF OBJECTIVITY, SUBJECTIVITY, AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE DIRECT PERCEPTION OF REALITY, Philosophy of science, 62(2), 1995, pp. 283-303
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History & Philosophy of Sciences","History & Philosophy of Sciences
This paper utilizes the theories of metaphor of George Lakoff, Mark Jo
hnson and Julian Jaynes to extend Jaynes' metaphor theory of conscious
ness by treating consciousness as an operator that works with 'covert
behavior' so that humans can integrate temporally discontinuous percep
ts with concepts based on metaphoric extensions of the embodied schema
s of direct and immediate perception and thereby transcend the limitat
ions of direct perception. A theory of first-person expressions and co
vert behavior to account for self-conscious awareness as language-base
d is advanced. Subjectivity and objectivity are metaphors based on sch
emas of perception.