{Meaning (and Causes) [continued (3)]}[8th September 1988]

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But* it must be said that the Meaning, and the Mind, are not of the Physical Universe, even though they may at any time depend on Media of the Physical Universe for their storage and communication. Nor are Meaning or the Mind subject to the same laws as is the Physical Universe.

I have been greatly taken with a remark I read somewhere recently, that (if I recall correctly) brain phenomena have meaning only in terms of the experiences of external phenomena with which they are associated.** I think, in fact, that this is wrong because it leaves out of the account precisely those inner Qualities which have no counterpart in the outside world, on the one hand, but on the other hand, are experienced as more than the bodily (and brainly) [sic] phenomena which may be associated with them: are experienced, in fact, in the Mind, | as Meaning, without reference to the outside World.**

*[See last previous entry]

**[Probably the proponents of the view put forward in the remark referred to in first sentence of the second paragraph above would argue that the words “directly or indirectly” are implied at the end of it. However, such an assertion would probably accompany a possibly unconscious assumption that all meaning is directly or indirectly associated with external experience, which would make the argument circular. <20190204>]

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