This is one of my favorite lectures and I thought that It would pertain to the discussion so far... I'm not sure how to imbed video yet, so here is the link to the lecture:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/98
The lecture is about the way we look at the "real" world, and other stuff.
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3 clear scales here...
I am some what critical of the idea that we can form Dialectics between linguistics/metaphors and architecture or conceptions of physical causalities and architecture. However one thing Richard Dawkin's speech discusses, is the issue of scale and the scale of cognitive understanding. The idea of "Middle Worlds" as the scaled universe our minds model off of may be a means to translate these cognitive issues of thought to architecture (Without reality of scale these things we explroe can not be assimilated with architecture; they will not exist in the same family). If we can use conceptions of physical causalities and the structure of linguistic metaphors to possibly begin to understand the modeling software of our own "neuro anotomoy", then we may be able to make assimilations to a scaled architecture which is inherently understood by this neuro anatomy of humans. Within the idea of neuro anotomy we can then find issues of synaesthesia that can form dialectics with architecture. As Dawkins mentions our minds are structured to a middle world scaled to human life, independent from other life on earth, he claims it is intuitively social. We must keep our thoughts from growing "queer", as architects the issue of scale as a means to form true dialectic comparisons needs to be respected. Linguistic metaphors and conception of causality need to be grounded to this "Middle world", it is there where architecture exists and only there can it prove truthfully innovative for our thesis.
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