Synopsis:
- The human mind is a symbolic system
- Understanding the world is turning it into symbols
- Animals live in the world
- Humans live in a symbolic representation of the world
- All cultural artifacts are symbolic forms that mediate between the individual's consciousness and the world/nature
- Cultural artifacts are not products but functions
- Evolution from mythos to logos:
- Language and myth were originally one
- They split and myth led to art while language led to logic
- Symbols are built on Kant-like innate categories
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