I am not teh smarts.
September 6, 2006 9:38 AM Subscribe
What are some good image metaphors for "intelligence"? Lightbulbs, brains, computers, networks.... etc... looking for concepts, suggestions or stock images.
Just brainstorming for a project. Thanks!
Just brainstorming for a project. Thanks!
Gears.
posted by ClaudiaCenter at 9:54 AM on September 6, 2006
posted by ClaudiaCenter at 9:54 AM on September 6, 2006
You can search some stock photo companies by concept!
posted by lovejones at 10:12 AM on September 6, 2006
posted by lovejones at 10:12 AM on September 6, 2006
A cross-section of a head with a lot of stuff going on inside it. Gears, diagrams, flowchart, etc.
posted by jessicapierce at 10:26 AM on September 6, 2006
posted by jessicapierce at 10:26 AM on September 6, 2006
A book.
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 10:42 AM on September 6, 2006
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 10:42 AM on September 6, 2006
You might get some ideas from The Mind is a Metaphor - A Database of Eighteenth-Century Metaphors of Mind
posted by miniape at 11:14 AM on September 6, 2006
posted by miniape at 11:14 AM on September 6, 2006
A blackboard filled with a complex mathematical problem.
posted by yeti at 11:15 AM on September 6, 2006
posted by yeti at 11:15 AM on September 6, 2006
I second "fractals."
posted by Laugh_track at 11:28 AM on September 6, 2006
posted by Laugh_track at 11:28 AM on September 6, 2006
Before the advent of the computer, people thought of the brain as being like clockwork. A complicated set of gears and pulleys could still work.
posted by nebulawindphone at 5:35 PM on September 6, 2006
posted by nebulawindphone at 5:35 PM on September 6, 2006
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posted by sjuhawk31 at 9:47 AM on September 6, 2006