(March 8, 2015 at 12:40 pm)Alex K Wrote: I would also like to stress that a Gene is an object which is 1.) entirely abstract 2.) meaningless out of context. Maybe I haven't quite understood what you mean by ideas being an abstraction.
1 is an abstraction, 1 apple is the abstract language to to denote the observation of the volume of of numbers of the object, the apple. You cant say "1 apple" if there is no apple to count. Just like you cannot describe the speed of the car if it is not in motion. The car and speed cannot be separated because the speed is the description of object in motion.
Our using language is used to communicate, but the words themselves are descriptions of ideas, and objects, because of our brains being in motion. No motion, no thoughts. Language is an outcome of a process, it is not a thing by itself.
