:Analogies for Sustainable Development/Analogies from A-Z
Note that the inclusion of an analogy in this Wikiversity Learning Project does not mean it is "true" or "solid" in a scientific sense. Indeed, some of the entries listed below are offered as a for tool critiquing the nature of narrative and analogy in sustainability discourse precisely because they break down easily upon inspection and yet may be commonly employed to further a particular viewpoint. Analogies are tools for thinking, please use the entries and resources below to help you explore deeper into the complexities of the sustainability topics you care about.
- Adaptive flexibility as musical instrument
- Adaptive flexibility as grass in the wind
- All learning as transfer of learning
- Biomimicry as analogy
- Brain as collective action
- Brain as common pool resource
- Brain as Computer, Brain as Internet
- Brain as dual mode camera
- Brain as evolutionary ecosystem
- Brain as garden
- Brain as moral tongue
- Brain as onion
- Cancer
- Capitalism as a Dialectic of Dynamism and Decency
- Children as scientists
- Cities as organs
- Cities as (super)organisms
- Concepts as species
- Cooperation as sitting in the same boat
- Corruption as cancer
- Earth as organism (Gaia hypothesis)
- Ecosystem as organism
- Elephant and the Rider
- Evolutionary process as Immune system
- Evolutionary process as Innovation
- Evolutionary process as Learning
- Global Village
- Health as homeostasis
- Homeostasis as mental health
- Homeostasis as group design principles
- Homo economicus
- Homo evolutis
- Homo politicus
- Human society as organism
- Human society as beehive
- Humans as cancer
- Insect agriculture as human agriculture
- Innovation as emergent property
- Knowledge as bricks
- Knowledge transfer as transfer of learning in the collective brain
- Major transitions as a boat race
- Maps as analogies
- Multilevel selection as fans on a billiard table
- Networked Complexity
- Neural networks as telephone wires
- Neural networks as road networks
- Organism as multi-cellular society
- Parable of the Commons
- Parable of the New Pastures
- Sacred circling & moral magnetism
- Scientific disciplines and theories as islands in an Ivory Archipelago
- Scientific disciplines and theories as languages
- Schools as organs
- Schools as superorganisms
- Selection as winnowing
- Selfish Gene
- Social learning as collective brain
- Social Learning as a Jazz Band
- Social Learning as bees
- Social Genome
- Species of thought
- System 1- System 2
- Transfer of learning as evolutionary information processing
- Tribalism as politics, as football teams
- Universities as organs
- Universities as superorganisms
- Wikipedia as collective brain
- Working memory as holding things in your hand
- 90% Chimp, 10% Bee, 100% Human