Comment on YSK: You Don't Actually Have A 'Lizard Brain', Evolutionary Study Reveals

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• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As the article states, it was much more than just a metaphor, and more of a ‘here’s our current understanding’ thing.

  And plenty of people took that seriously IME.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You don’t need to take a bad metaphor literally for it to pollute your knowledge of the world, to argue otherwise is to deny the basic function of metaphors.

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  • MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t know that I agree with this. I’ve used the term ‘lizard brain’ a lot, but I had no idea it was rooted in this study. I just assumed it meant a more primitive train of thought, particularly one in a state of panic. It’s obviously important to dispel misconceptions if you have them, but I don’t think saying ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’ is going to irreparably alter someone’s idea of economics just because the value of birds doesn’t literally match the metaphor.

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