aren't the men, and the bricks, and the dropping all symbols? Perhaps the visual stimulus / qualia could be considered non-symbolic, but surely the high level a

aren't the men, and the bricks, and the dropping all symbols? Perhaps the visual stimulus / qualia could be considered non-symbolic, but surely the high level abstractions "men" "bricks" "drop" are, even if the experience of thinking did not include hearing the phonetic expression of these concepts as words