Bootstrapped Thought

I made a video earlier this morning drawing on conceptual metaphor theory and cognitive linguistics and it reminded me again of how bootstrapped a lot of thought processes seem to be.  Let me just see if I can explain what I mean by that.  Firstly, I think Mark Turner was pretty much bang on when he described the mind as 'Literary' inasmuch as such a lot of thinking involves the mobilisation of the same strategies that poets and other wordsmiths use to generate and convey meaning and significance.  This observation has been extensively developed, most notably by Lakoff and Johnson, but by many others also, and cognitive poetics is a pretty well established field of study now.  The circularity, or 'bootstrapping' comes in when we/I try to think about how thought processes themselves operate.  Since cognition is outside of the range of any of the senses, and because there is no direct concrete access to its operation except via instrumentation of various sorts, all thought and speech about cognition must necessarily make use of figuration and metaphor, so in order to thalk about the literary mind wi must inevitably use literary and poetic processes.  There's no escape from the circle and the rhymes and rhythms of mind turn around on themselves in an endless mobius dance, like a dance, or a strip of paper, or words on a page, or pigment on canvas, never ending or beginning in the ever-spinning real.