Hi How accurate is the metaphoric mapping ...... is it a memory and or empathy function

It is neither a memory nor an empathy function. It is lower in the hierarchy. The metaphoric mapping works as follows:

1. consider a set of explicitly described neurons providing an input/output function

2. consider another set of neurons, also explicitly described, and itself describing the first set of neurons

3. then I show how yet another set of neurons, also explicitly described, can apply the function 1 to different input or/and output by added connections to specific neurons of the descriptions

4. I also show how another set of neurons, still explicitly described, can modify the function 1 itself. I even show how a set of neurons can modify the function 2, and actually, even itself, recursively up to a set of neurons that can universally describe any other set of neurons, by adding neurons and/or connections to other neuronal descriptions

5. above 3 and 4 are the neuronal mechanisms governing metaphorical descriptions

In terms of social self, 3 can describe the self (a given input/output) or describe others (different input/output) via 3, and 4 allows modifying the self/other relationship by modifying the corresponding functions, or, also, modifying the self and other descriptions themselves as applicable.

Memory or empathy functions should then be describable that way, as would be constructions on top of the neuronal descriptions I introduced, but they are not a product of them per se. I say "should" and "would" because I have never done an exercise at that higher level. The examples of treatment I provide in the article are fundamentals, regarding in particular learning, self-description, metaphors, and organization, and specifically intended to present the mechanisms involved. Applying those mechanisms on the scale necessary for your project is work yet to be done, but I do believe that the scaffolding is there, and I sure can help if needed.