Conceptual Integration NetworkGeneric Space

Input 1Input 2

Blend

Mental Spaces

• Small conceptual packets – neurons usually activated together

• Usually contain frames – organizing frames

Basic Elements

• Input spaces• Cross-space mapping• Generic space• Blend

– Selective projection

• Emergent structure– Composition, completion and elaboration

(simulation)

Types

• 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

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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