I'm going on memory here-- I'm pretty sure "A Semiotic Primer of the Self" speaks to this connection [between symbol use and triadic threshold].
The origin of symbol use is identical to the crossing of the triadic threshold. At some point our brain evolved the ability to synthesize the triadic relation between signifier and signified, linguistic signs and their referents. At that point we evolved a new mode of being.
I tried dealing with this subject in "Walker Percy and the Mind/Body Problem' June 1999 International Philosophical Quarterly. [shameless self-promotion] Pretty naive writing on subjects I didn't really understand.
I know Percy deals with the subject in essays in The Message in the Bottle also.
This triadic threshold question is THE question. I have to think that understanding where we come from will help us know where we are going.
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