these capacities evolved so recently that our brains are, if you will, winging it and improvising on the fly when dealing with metaphor. As a result, we are actually pretty lousy at distinguishing between the metaphorical and literal, at remembering that "it's only a figure of speech"-with enormous consequences for our best and worst behaviors.
( Robert M. Sapolsky )
[ Behave: The Biology of Humans ]
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