All language is a metaphor of some kind that parallels the concept it is addressing.
All thoughts, sensations, and sense are the same. For instance the sense of hunger means you need food, and the sense of pain means your actions put you in danger.
It’s not a perfect puzzle.
Language can come out as completely illogical, and so can a movie plot, a painting, a building, an entire society and the government too.
So can the brain’s thoughts, sensations, and senses.
Language simulates something else via its context.
Metaphor is a simulation that is expressed over the original context. In other words it’s a double metaphor then.
But really the brain’s inner mental workings including all 5 external senses are the original simulation, and the words of language are the next tier in the order of simulation, and the metaphor one above that.
The simulation and metaphor are essentially the same in that they represent something else in parallels, and…
…the inner mental goings on all combined have the same essence in that they are simulation and/or metaphor to represent something else in parallels.
Parallels is the business of the brain. There is nothing literal about the mind other than it is the mind like there is nothing literal about the reflection on a mirror other than it is the reflection on the mirror which contains information.
What is dangerous about this business of parallels in the mind is that if we get confused, we can mess ourselves or others up. If we take metaphors as being some kind of telepathic brainwash or something, or we take logical fallacies as the logical truth, our brains can “completely implode in irrational disorder”…
…like someone who talks about lies or in irrational gibberish or constant phantasmagorical metaphors.
What is literally is subject and predicate reality. A subject is literally real, and there is no real subject in external reality. A predicate must be real, and be the truth about a subject for it to be logical. If this logicality of reality is broken in language, then it is literally not literal.
So to if the brain does anything mentally to break that logicality about external reality, then it is literally not literal. It is only metaphorical anyway, but the concepts that it depicts regardless may or may literally be…
…not literal.