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Abstract to be presented to the International Conference on Consciousness at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Tucson, Arizona

Consciousness and Albert Einstein’s relative space-time: new perspectives on Albert Einstein’s discovery in Sobral.

Diverse are the interpretations of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity in the different sciences since May 29th, 1919, when Einstein verified in Sobral, Brazil, a completely new conception of cosmology advancing scientific understanding and presenting new consequences for the human race and modern science. The main objective of this paper is to present an interdisciplinary approach dealing with CONCEPTUALIZATION; FIGURATIVIZATION AND METAPHORIZATION in Einstein’s Relativistic Mechanics. The thesis defended is that relativity is a metaphor in Einstein’s Mechanics. The central question therefore aims to define in which theory of consciousness is Einstein’s Sobral discovery best grounded?

With these objectives established, we propose to discuss the concept of relativity in Einstein’s Mechanics in relation to consciousness, language and thought. We also set out to discuss the concept of relativity as a cognitive metaphor in language and thought in Albert Einstein’s relativistic Mechanics. The second objective deals with the contributions of prominent theorists of Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Semantics, Hermeneutical Phenomenology and Consciousness in order to discuss Einstein’s scientific discovery in Sobral, as a scientific breakthrough considered to be the most important contribution to Modern Physics, if not to the history of physics. 
With this interdisciplinary perspective our approach discusses the reasoning and confirmations established in Einstein’s relativistic Mechanics. If Einstein’s relativist Mechanics  does not completely unveil to mankind a conceptualization, figurativization and metaphorization of space and time, it does at least inform beacons, in this much complex but fascinating field,  of man-language-myth-natural world relations. 

Among these beacons, we emphasize that the process of comprehension of these relations can only be tropological, since what is involved in the conversion of the unfamiliar to the familiar is a creation of a metaphor that in general is figurative. 

The conclusion herein reached therefore is that the concept of relativity is a cognitive metaphor in thought and language in Albert Einstein’s relativistic Mechanics, confirmed in Sobral, Brazil.

Abstract presented in the IIIrd International Conference on Metaphor In Language and in Thought,in Fortaleza,2008.