The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities by Giles Fauconnier and Mark Turner

     The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities offers a very exciting and intuitive premise. The way we humans think is due to an underlying capacity to blend concepts together, concepts that often seem disparate and unrelated on the surface. This “blending ability” underlies our capacity for language and many other mental operations. It is the basis of human thought.

     And we do it all the time, unceasingly, and in large measure, unconsciously. And at differ...