Freedom is an Abstract Idea

Freedom is an Abstract Idea

I love chocolates, I love freedom, I love mom, I love my dog, I love April in Paris, etc. When we abstract (disassociate from any instance) we remove the contingent (unpredictable). Is the emotion attached to each one of these abstract ideas exactly the same? I suspect no one knows or can know."Metaphor allows conventional mental imagery from sensorimotor domains to be used for domains of subjective experience."

An infant is born and when embraced for the first time by its mother the infant experiences the sensation of warmth. In succeeding experiences the warmth is felt along with other sensations.

The experience structure can be mapped into a new mental space and thereby becomes part of the structure of that new mental space. In this fashion these conceptual metaphors can act somewhat like atoms that join together to make a molecule.