**6. Concluding remarks**

Phenomenal domains are one thing, but then we still want to know *how* we come to know about them.

*… semiosis is the transformation of energy into signs, relatively stable spatiotemporal units occurring with particular orders of matter energy configurations. These orders are systems of knowledge and of molecular organization as well; they are organized codal actions (of codification of energy) that provide both continuity of knowledge and transformation of energy ([21], p. 92).*

For Peirce, there was no doubt that a 'gob of protoplasm', say an amoeba or a slime mold, *feels*, and that feeling has a substantial spatial extension which is subjective ([22], p. 90). A Martian scientist, having probably a bodily constitution very different from that of humans, would place her/his experience of the world in a very different conceptual context.

*"A Martian scientist with no understanding of visual perception could understand the rainbow, or lightning, or clouds as physical phenomena, though he would never be able to understand the human concepts of rainbow, lightning or cloud, or the place these things occupy in our phenomenal world ([10], p. 443)."*

The body is "an integral component of the way we think" ([21], p. 80). As is shown in the example of the response numbers that came about when the five groups of readers were asked to 'jot down what comes to mind', we deal with numbers that highlight the phenomenon of *iteration* as expressed in the language forms of five different languages. The persons who produce the jottings are not aware of this background. There is no reasoned conceptualization of the phenomenon of iteration that achieves the telling *numbers*. It is the placing of the responses, and their numbers, that signal the phenomenon of *iteration*, that is, a nonconscious awareness of the conceptual perception. For the observer, there are just the telling numbers that select the phenomenon of iteration as a focus of attention.

*Configuring a Concept - On Iteration and Infinity DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100453*

The five languages—among many other types of the givenness of reality—give evidence of an experienced ongoing processuality as 'encyphered' in human bodies and expressed in languages as various conceptualizations of iterations in the grammars of languages.

Cantor's "Punktmannigfaltigkeiten" (set(s) of points) correspond to and conceptualize the variations of the "ongoingness… and location in time" as described in the grammars of the world's languages ([23], 155; in Filipovič and Jaszcolt, 2012). Cantor developed set theory, describing the various properties and intersections of finite and infinite sets. Such properties and intersections have become the accessible qualities of sets. As for the process of creating a concept, here the concept of iteration, a number of experiential pathways have been suggested—energy in the brain, cellular connectivity, quantum concepts, the experience of unlimited connectivity (fire, water, earth, and air; ἄπειρον). However, the question remains how the world of the senses *is channeled into the experience of a concept* when motivating the response numbers. "Material engagement is the synergistic process by which, out of brains, bodies, and things, mind emerges" ([21], p. 32). The approaches which play a role in this paper all provide aspects of this 'synergistic process'. It is this synergy of factors and forces, which forms the background for creating a concept.

So far, what can be said is this: The experience of a concept is a restatement of a felt sensing that confirms something. "A *feeling* forced upon the mind … [is] strongly suggestive of thought" ([24], p. 23).

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## **Author details**

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