Science and Metaphors?

This is a very interesting topic here, it is basically based on an idea that I want to fight against. The fact that many people believe that science cannot be metaphoric and exemplify it through the novel we are talking about right now (if I didn't it would be of little use wouldn't it?). The wonderful thing about Neuromancer is that it combines the literary value of metaphors with the setting of absolute and maximum representation of science and a technological world. Nietzsche would be astonished if he heard me I'm afraid, because he believed that all metaphors came from language itself and not from external ideas. Well, here I'm going to try to argue that. The truth is that the importance of metaphors in a genre like Cyberpunk cannot be stressed enough, because it's basically the way we can understand the value of a novel like Neuromancer.

In the Cyberpunk section of the web we can find references to the difference between men and women and the metaphors used in technological devices to exemplify it. The way metaphor seems to assimilate what is unknown to what is known is precisely the way Neuromancer activates in our brain the fears that makes it such a good "read". Because it takes something so improbable (we wish to believe) and makes it feel as if it were something logical and to be expected. However, time will tell if we are to fear such a development of happenings or not. So, we find that basically the way Neuromancer gets to us is through identifying what is normal to us (internet, virtual reality, drugs, sex, violence…) with ideas that are quite far away (AI, company consortiums, information mafias, Cyber-reality better than the real world…). If we want to know more about his you can follow this link…

http://www.poems2u.com/text/cyberpunk-t.htm

Here you can discover the history of opinions about metaphor, while discovering the appropriate point of view from which we are to evaluate the importance of metaphor in Cyberpunk and modern literature, not a very interesting thing if you won't have some patience and interest in this topic, however, I hope someone does read it. It is very well written indeed.