Formalism is escaping its symbolic constraints.
But we face a severe limitation: *formalism, itself is currently defined by symbolic strings.*
Created in an era without film and television and video gaming and telephones-that-are-cameras and social media, symbolic formalism is permeated with Accidental Structure imposed by a medium of expression that obscures the content being expressed. [⇒ Accidental Complexity]
Via the syntax/semantics barrier, symbolic form is intentionally blind. It cannot access its own Meaning. It lacks a direct facility for feedback and self-modification. Attempting to isolate any aspect of reality or fantasy from the context/environment that provides its sustenance and vitality is delusional behavior.
Thought Is a System integrated with its mental carrier which is itself integrated with its physical carrier which is itself integrated with its experiential context which is itself inseparable from the warp and weft of reality.
Today it is both dangerous and destructive to believe in a Platonic reality separate from the actual reality since existential questions stretch well beyond the isolated security of formal and philosophical thought and well outside of the contextual disassociation of silicon computation.
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Bricken, Iconic Arithmetic Volume III: The Structure of Imaginary And Infinite Forms, pdf 
, p. 377.
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