{"id":326,"date":"2011-04-05T07:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T14:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=326"},"modified":"2011-04-05T08:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:49:44","slug":"g-h-mead-quotes-on-temporality-symbolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kooleady.ca\/thoughts\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"G. H. Mead: Quotes on Temporality & Symbolism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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INTELLIGENCE<\/span> ”is the process of delaying, organizing, and selecting a response or reaction to the stimuli of the given environmental situation\u201d (p. 100).<\/p>\n

“The traces of past experience are continually playing in upon our perceived world’ (p. 113).<\/p>\n

\u201c . . . The relation of the temporal character of the nervous system to foresight and choice. . . That which takes place in present organic behaviour is always in some sense an emergent from the past, and could never have been precisely predicted in advance… (p. 98-99).<\/p>\n

TEMPORAL Dimension<\/span>: ”the things we are going to do can be arranged in a temporal order so that the latter processes can in their inception be present in determining the earlier processes; what we are going to do can determine our immediate approach to the object.” (p. 117).<\/p>\n

Symbolism<\/span>: \u00a0“To be able to identify ‘this as leading to that., and to get some sort of a gesture,<\/span> vocal or otherwise, which can be used to implicate<\/span> indicate the implication to others and himself so as to make possible control of conduct with reference to it, is The distinctive thing in human intelligence which is not found in animal intelligence.’ (p. 120)..<\/p>\n

Symbols allow us to “hold on to these given characters and to isolate them in their relationship to the object, and consequently in their relation to the response.’ (p. 121).<\/p>\n

Example provided:<\/p>\n