Re: [xmca] signs and tools-for-thought: an analogy? - tools for play? Play with tools?

A little digression -- I thought you would enjoy:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/shadow/shadow-monsters-give-your-shadows-some-life-297724.php?autoplay=true

Ana

Tony Whitson wrote:
> In an earlier post, I repeated Peirce's view that thought is
> sign-activity, and asked, if signs are merely tools for thought, then
> what do we take thought, itself, to be?
>
> Reflecting on that, it occurs to me that it might be helpful to
> suggest this as an analogy:
>
> To say that signs are tools for thought, is rather like saying that
> molecules are tools for heat.
>
> To think of thought AS sign activity, is it helpful, as a lame
> analogy, to think of heat AS Brownian motion?
>
> Tony Whitson
> UD School of Education
> NEWARK DE 19716
>
> twhitson@udel.edu
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