
doi: 10.1515/sem.2006.045
This paper attempts to understand the coexistence of the material and nonmaterial aspects of our lives. By synthesizing ideas about structures, physical entities, mental phenomena, and symbolic relations, we argue that the nonmaterial can emerge from the material, and then the nonmaterial may mediate the production of material entities. Finally, this cycle is applied to notions of creativity and invention.
symbol, semiotics, structure, mentality, matter, creativity
symbol, semiotics, structure, mentality, matter, creativity
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