[ExI] Fw: Uploading and selfhood

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Sun Apr 6 18:40:16 UTC 2008


At 11:05 AM 4/6/2008 -0700, Lee wrote:

>As I got from Hofstadter, at least while I was reading that
>chapter, it became clear that there are two kinds of meaning.
>One is by convention, the other is by isomorphism. He has
>many nice examples of the latter, and they do not depend
>on the syntax of any language or upon any conventions.

See also the nicely titled ONOMATOPOETICS by Joseph F. Graham, 
Cambridge University Press 1992.  




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