[The Creation Of Adam: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
ceiling depiction of the Christian god within a brain-shaped "cloud".]
In 1990, Frank Lynn Meshberger noted in the medical publication the Journal of the American Medical Association that the background figures and shapes portrayed behind the figure of God appeared to be an anatomically accurate picture of the human brain. On close examination, borders in the painting correlate with major sulci of the cerebrum in the inner and outer surface of the brain, the brain stem, the frontal lobe, the basilar artery, the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm.
Now, let’s push this a little harder and see what happens if
we treat the logico-semantic relation of projection
as a material process — remembering that it is projection that relates
conscious beings and processes to the content
of consciousness: meaning and wording.
Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 642) point out that the general effect of ideational metaphor is a shift from the logical to the experiential.
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