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of individual behaviour in the context of a given statistical law is, in general, consistent with the
notion of more detailed individual laws applying in a broader context." Bohm, Wholeness, 87
(italics original).
26 Jason Erik Lundberg, "One Less," Americana (2005).
27 Neisser, "Development of Consciousness," (6).
28 Jeffrey Ford, "Bright Morning," Feeling Very Strange. The Slipstream Anthology (see
note 9). M. John Harrison, "Entertaining Angels Unawares," Conjunctions 39 (see note 19).
Doug Lain, "The Word 'Mermaid' Written on an Index Card," Last Week's Apocalypse (see note
17).
29 Karen Joy Fowler, "Lieserl" Feeling Very Strange. The Slipstream Anthology (see note
9). Ted Chiang, "Hell is the Absence of God," ibid.
30 How one casts these metaphors is determined culturally, as demonstrated in Lakoff and
Johnson's Metaphors We Live (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980). Metaphorization, the recasting
of one thing in terms of another, is primarily a linguistically determined enterprise, but in
cognition, it can be also imagistic, auditory, or temporal-none of which must necessarily be
expressed linguistically. In turn, within a text, linguistically determined metaphor will be
informed by both the author's and the readers' understandings of their own non-linguistic
metaphoric cognition, which turns back on itself as at least partially linguistically determined.
The nature of linguistic metaphor is not simply semiotic: as Bohm illustrates, linguistic metaphor
invokes cognitive metaphor in the same materialist brain-space as cognition itself-thought is
not simply about experience, it is experience. When the anxieties, perceptual dispositions, and
idio-occult systems making a self take the gaps in their negotiations as the processes of the61
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