We often use metaphors to frame our understanding: a revolutionary metaphor, an erotic metaphor, an economic metaphor, or a religious metaphor.
Problems arise when metaphors are mixed, as people struggle to reconcile them. How can you claim the mother of the messiah was a virgin? How can the son of god be a bastard? That’s difficult to reconcile.
But what if we accept that metaphors, as qualia, are living beings? If metaphors are alive, then each metaphor is, itself, a being that rituals, developes qualiadelic relationships, experiences traditions, all within the ecosystems we call the mind.
In this framework, metaphors can either cooperate or compete with one another. Each metaphor represents a unique perspective, a distinct way of understanding the world; it has its own landscape, with its own landmarks and pathways, and just like any living being in an ecosystem, they can clash or coexist with other metaphors, shaping the way we interpret and navigate our reality.
Indeed, if minds are ecosystems then we are like gods, and, despite our divinity, we cannot control our creation. What we can do, however, is always look for new qualia, new thoughts, new ideas, to set them forth as revelations for the metaphors to notice, if they will.
It is also possible that we, ourselves, are just metaphors, and we must notice what our planet’s ecosystems reveal to us.
Revel in qualiadeliciousness!