Re: Genesis/Meaning/Chat/Lewin
Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:12:20 +0100
At 08.38 96-08-08, Mike Cole wrote:
>Meaning is the residue of prior human activity embodied in artifacts,
>among which tools as conventionally understood and the words of languages
>are prominent kinds of artifacts. Human mind grows and expresses itself
>through the artifact-saturated medium of culture, through making meaning and
>human life.
I think I see what you mean Mike, but doesn't the formulation externalize
the observer-(human mind)- from the embodied-meaning: defining meaning as
in the residue of prior human activity embodied in artifacts etc. is true
BECAUSE there is still-always human activity thriving in and upon those
residues: meanings are in the system of humans&artifacts -- recyclings of
residues... WE are IN the compost heap of meaning, so to speak.
Eva