Many linguists consider words to be the building blocks of concepts, many philosophers think that concepts are built from constituent senses. But, still, we can go further, to the neurological basis of our understanding. At this point we have abstracted away from the meaning" — Source
First of all I think, that going to "the neorological basis" is not a step further from the senses, but a step back. I think, the senses are the base, since they connect a brain with its environment.
Secondary, i am not sure, whether that's really an abstraction of meaning, since: What's meaning. Have a look at Hilary Putnam. -- I thougth that for a while as well, but i am not sure on this anymore.<<
Updates: 20070624: Tagged the posting. Updated the posting style (layout) to my current style, such as using blockquotes when appropriate. May/May not have removed my workaround for backlinks blogger.com didn't support in earlier times. Now, backlings are there, therefore the bypass can be dropped.
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