Embodied Experience
Roles: body, sensation, movement, orientation, boundary, sufferer, symptom, cause
The lived experience of having a body — sensation, proprioception, gravity, fatigue, pain, pleasure. Lakoff and Johnson’s foundational claim: abstract thought is grounded in embodied experience. We understand UP IS GOOD because standing upright is healthy; we understand KNOWING IS SEEING because vision is our dominant sense. One of the most productive source domains in all of metaphor.
As Source Frame (97)
- A Force Is a Moving Object → physics
- Acting On Is Transferring An Object → event-structure
- Action Is Motion → event-structure
- Actions Are Self-Propelled Motions → event-structure
- Affection Is Warmth → love-and-relationships
- Anger Is Heat → mental-experience
- Bad Is Stinky → mental-experience
- Bicycle for the Mind → computing
- Big Ball of Mud → software-programs
- Bus Factor → shared-resources
- C Pointer → software-programs
- Causes Are Forces → causal-reasoning
- Change Is Motion → event-structure
- Code Smell → software-programs
- Coherent Is Aligned → intellectual-inquiry
- Coherent Is Whole → intellectual-inquiry
- Comparison of Properties Is Comparison of Physical Properties → intellectual-inquiry
- Compliance Is Tightness → governance
- Conceit Is Inflation → mental-experience
- Conscious Is Up; Unconscious Is Down → mental-experience
- Difficulties Are Burdens → event-structure
- Difficulties Are Impediments to Motion → event-structure
- Difficulty Is Moving → event-structure
- Disgust Is Nausea → mental-experience
- Effect on Emotional Self Is Contact with Physical Self → mental-experience
- Effects of Humor Are Injuries → humor
- Emotion Is Motion → mental-experience
- Emotional Intimacy Is Physical Closeness → love-and-relationships
- Emotional Self Is A Brittle Object → mental-experience
- Emotional Stability Is Balance → mental-experience
- Emotional Stability Is Contact with the Ground → mental-experience
- Emotional Stability Is Maintaining Position → mental-experience
- Environment Variable → software-programs
- Euphoric States Are Up → mental-experience
- Fear Is Cold → mental-experience
- Finished Is Up → time-and-temporality
- Foreseeable Future Events Are Up (and Ahead) → time-and-temporality
- Form Is Motion → geometry
- Good Is Up; Bad Is Down → embodied-experience
- Hands as Thoughts → psychotherapy
- Happy Is Up; Sad Is Down → embodied-experience
- Harm Is Physical Injury → event-structure
- Harm Is Preventing Forward Motion Toward a Goal → event-structure
- Harming Is Lowering → event-structure
- Having Control Is Up; Being Subject To Control Is Down → social-behavior
- Health Is Up; Sickness Is Down → embodied-experience
- Help Is Support → social-behavior
- Ideas Are Objects → intellectual-inquiry
- Ideas Are Perceptions → intellectual-inquiry
- Importance Is Size → event-structure
- Inflation Is an Entity → economics
- Intense Emotions Are Heat → mental-experience
- Interaction Between Progress and External Events Affecting → event-structure
- Intimacy Is Closeness → love-and-relationships
- Intoxication Is Getting A Burden → mental-experience
- Love Is a Physical Force → love-and-relationships
- Love Is a Unity → love-and-relationships
- Love Is Madness → love-and-relationships
- Lust Is Heat → mental-experience
- Memory Heap → memory-management
- Memory Stack → memory-management
- More Is Up; Less Is Down → embodied-experience
- Null Pointer → computing
- Obligations Are Forces → event-structure
- Possessing Is Holding → economics
- Problem Is a Tangle → causal-reasoning
- Process Kill → software-programs
- Process Sleep → software-programs
- Process Trap → computing
- Program Failure Is Bodily Failure → software-programs
- Properties Are Physical Properties → event-structure
- Properties Are Possessions → event-structure
- Psychological Forces Are Physical Forces → mental-experience
- Purposes Are Desired Objects → event-structure
- Rational Is Up; Emotional Is Down → intellectual-inquiry
- Receiving Serious Thought Is Being On The Mind → mental-experience
- Seeing Is Touching, Eyes Are Limbs → vision
- Seeing Is Touching → vision
- Self-Initiated Change Of State Is Self-Propelled Motion → event-structure
- Significant Is Big → social-behavior
- Similarity Is Closeness → intellectual-inquiry
- Software Rot → software-programs
- Status Is Up; Lack Of Status Is Down → social-roles
- The Conduit Metaphor → intellectual-inquiry
- The Event Structure Metaphorical System → event-structure
- The Mind Is a Body → mental-experience
- The Mind Is A Brittle Object → mental-experience
- The Visual Field Is A Bounded Region → vision
- Time Is a Moving Object → time-and-temporality
- Time Is Motion → time-and-temporality
- Time Is Stationary and We Move Through It → time-and-temporality
- Tool Use Is Physical Manipulation → artificial-intelligence
- Understanding Is Grasping → intellectual-inquiry
- Unknown Is Up; Known Is Down → intellectual-inquiry
- Virtue Is Up; Depravity Is Down → social-behavior
- Weights Are Knowledge → artificial-intelligence
- Window → architecture-and-building
Applied To This Frame (11)
- containers → External Appearance Is A Cover
- embodied-experience → Good Is Up; Bad Is Down
- embodied-experience → Happy Is Up; Sad Is Down
- embodied-experience → Health Is Up; Sickness Is Down
- embodied-experience → More Is Up; Less Is Down
- animal-behavior → Muscle
- electricity → People Are Batteries
- physical-objects → Perception Is Reception
- physics → Running Out of Steam
- containers → The Body Is a Container for the Self
- seafaring → Three Sheets to the Wind