Now there's a paradoxical metaphor

Continuing this  and this post: When we get so attached to our abstract models as the final solution we can miss and dismiss the actual developments on the concrete ground. And/or try to fit those concretes into the abstract.

Now there's a metaphor: The abstract becomes like concrete, set in stone, while the concrete is the fluid development of nature. If we could but let that fluid nature inform our abstractions (like 2nd gen cogsci) then our abstractions and models could indeed work with that process. Granted, that's a big IF.