INTRODUCTION

The articles in this collection are all draft versions of work in progress. They deal with the issue of symbolic concepts that are abstract/ less than fully physical. These concepts resist final definition, standard scientific epistemology, and reductive research. Thus, the terms abstract, quasi-physical, not exclusively physical, nonmaterial, symbolic, mental are applied to the concepts, but they all can be seen to mean, "nonphysical" and can be substituted for that term. The articles sometimes overlap in content and thus certain portions of the same text may appear in more than one article. The articles do not produce facts/answers. They are meant to generate perspectives/points of view. Readers may feel free to cite/quote, duplicate, and share this work.

Table of Contents

Schumann, John H. The Symbolosphere and nonphysical aspects of the mind.

Schumann, John H. Exploring Symbolic Physicality/Physical Non-materiality (Latest Edition)

Schumann, John H. On Physicallity

Schumann, John H. The Other Side of Symbolic Reference

Schumann, John H. On the Possibility of Definition

Schumann, John H. The Natural Sciences Meet Applied Lingustics: The Brain and the Mind

Schumann, John H. Exploring Nonexclusively Physical Concepts /Symbolic Physicality

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Discussion: Jasanoff, Alan (2018). The Biological Mind. NY: Basic Books.

Article: Schumann, John H. Concrete, abstract, nonphysical.

Discussion: Goddard, C. & Wierzbicka K. A. (2014). Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics across Domains, Languages, and Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Discussion: Schumann, John H. Materiality. Classical physics, quantum mechanics, and symbolic reference. A discussion of What Is Real by Adam Becker and Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder.

Discussion: Schumann, John H. Walker Percys seminotics.

Discussion Sherman, Jeremy (2017). Neither Ghost nor Machine.: The Emergence and Nature of Selves. Forward by Terrence Deacon. New York: Columbia University Press.

Discussion: Gallagher, S., Reinerman-Jones. L., Jantz. B., Bockelman, P., Trempler, J. (2015). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Discussion: Kandel, Eric (2016). Reductionism In Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures. New York: Columbia University Press.

Discussion: Wilson, Edward O. (2017). The Origins of Creativity. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Discussion.: Barbieri. M. (2014). From biosemiotics to code biology. Biological Theory, 9 (2). 239-249.

Discussion: De Waal, F. (2019). Moma's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Can Tell Us About Ourselves. New York: WW Norton and Company.

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