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Conceptual Integration Network
Generic
Space
Input 1
Input 2
Blend
Mental Spaces
• Small conceptual packets – neurons usually
activated together
• Usually contain frames – organizing frames
Basic Elements
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Input spaces
Cross-space mapping
Generic space
Blend
– Selective projection
• Emergent structure
– Composition, completion and elaboration
(simulation)
Types
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Simplex
Mirror
Single-scope
Double-scope
Buddhist Monk
• A Buddhist Monk begins at dawn one day
walkin up a mountain, reaches the top at
sunset. One dawn he begins to walk back to
the foot of the mountain which he reaches at
sunset.
• Is there a place on the path that the monk
occupies at the same hour of the day on the
two separate journeys?
Regatta
As we went to press, Rich Wilson and Bill
Biewenga were barely maintaining a 4.5
day lead over the ghost of the clipper
Northern Light, whose record run from San
Francisco to Boston they're trying to beat.
In 1853, the clipper made the passage in 76
days, 8 hours. —"Great America II,"
Debate With Kant
• I claim that reason is a self-developing capacity.
Kant disagrees with me on this point. He says it's
innate, but I answer that that's begging the
question, to which he counters, in Critique of Pure
Reason, that only innate ideas have power. But I
say to that, what about neuronal group selection?
He gives no answer.
• Imagined debate.
Simplex Network
• Frame to roles connection
• No clashes – no organizing frame in one
of the mental spaces
Mirror Network
• Buddhist Monk, Kant, Regatta
• Spaces share the same organizing frame
• Often yet richer frame in the blend
Single Scope Networks
• Two input spaces with different
organizing frames
• One projected to organize the blends
• Two CEO’s in a business boxing
metaphor
• One knocked out cold
• Conventional metaphors
Double Scope Networks
• Different often clashing organizing frames
• Organizing frame for blend uses parts of each
of those frames and has emergent structure of
its own
• Computer Desktop Interface Example
– Office work – folders and trashcans
– Traditional computer commands
– Throwing away and printing are from different
frames