Relationships between concepts are tensors, concepts are defined by their relationships to adjacent concepts, the conceptual universe is a directed spatial graph with low local and high global dimensionality, traversing the paths between any two concept yields mutual information.
Symbols are not grounded in the physical world, but in the mental simulation of a world that is in part physical (i.e. built on a causally closed mechanical layer that we model geometrically), and in part symbolic.
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Symbols are grounded in embodiment, which includes the physical senses but also those aspects of being human that we experience directly, like emotions & direct mental experience. Once one has an adequate number to get off the ground, symbols can be used to define other symbols.
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The body is virtual (a model within the mind) as well. We don’t ground our symbols outside of the mind, but in the subsymbolic and symbolic functions that our mind represents.
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If that world is partly physical and partly symbolic, what kind of symbols is the symbolic part using and what is their meaning?
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It is the simulation of world of physical events (our model of stuff in space etc.) and the world of ideas: meaning, culture, sociality, relationships, art, economy etc.
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