Clark wrote:

"But there can be signs of mind and not matter.         (073114-1)
That’s more the issue I’m getting at."

Can there be any signs of mind independent of matter or unsupported by
material mechanisms of some sort ?

If so, what would be an example of that ?

With all the best.

Sung
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>
>> On Jul 31, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Søren Brier <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> My I add a few thoughts? I agree that sign are reals, but when they
>> manifests as tokens their Secondness must enter the world of physics and
>> thermodynamics must apply. It is work to make signs emerge in non-verbal
>> communication or as language from ones feeling and thoughts. Even to
>> produces thoughts and feeling demands work. That would be a biosemiotic
>> view (but one that we have not discussed much). But I think you are
>> correct in saying that Peirce did not do any work on this aspect of sign
>> production.
>
> Again this gets at ontological issues. Remember Peirce’s conception of
> mind and matter which gets a bit tricky. The world of physics is the world
> of matter which is mind under habit. But there can be signs of mind and
> not matter. That’s more the issue I’m getting at.


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