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An example of anthropomorphism (and simile) in public science discourse
"And if you imagine, that as you are learning something new form the environment, what happens is, the little filopodium which is like a worm-like structure, basically, reaches out from one nerve cell and tries to make contact with a neighbour of that nerve cell, and when it makes contact, that's kind of learning."
Dr. Hannah Critchlow
Dr. Hannah Critchlow (Fellow Commoner and Outreach Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge) was talking on an episode ('Hannah Critchlow on the connected brain') of the BBC's Life Scientific.
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