This work revealed the deeply metaphorical nature of human thought, and the ultimate grounding of all thought in bodily experience. This book is one of the silliest things ever written about cognition. There is almost no detail in it that is correct. While this book seems to have been influential, the ideas are fairly light weight. One fears, alas, that the book has been influential precisely because the ideas are light weight.
Metaphor deserves a deeper account.
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