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Ontology of Observing – The Biological Foundations of Self-Consciousness and of the Physical Domain of Existence

Humberto Maturana. My purpose in this essay is to explain cognition as a biological phenomenon, and to show, in the process, how language arises and gives origin to self-consciousness, revealing the ontological foundations of the physical domain of existence as … Continue reading

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The Situation Is in the Mindset of the Observer

When we enter a situation, we don’t just enter it cold. We don’t travel light. We bring along all of the baggage that we’ve accumulated in our life, every experience and thought and prior perception that has been stacked away, … Continue reading

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