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- Page 8 and 9: TTo Emmahinking of that early sprin
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keen sense of irony. When I arrived
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physician and nature researcher Fri
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the whole of biological reality.The
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makes this body possible? All its c
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But for Uexküll, this goal-directe
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LIFE AS IMAGINATIONUexküll’s ide
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the side that we see from within, s
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Varela, the machine model of life p
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We must not underestimate the signi
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the creative misunderstanding that
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without any activity. But, on the o
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in need can exist at all. This is t
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recognize this fact, directly and r
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ICHAPTER 3:The Physics of CreationL
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found a seamless transition from se
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within any of the distinct transfor
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less to an industrial installation
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structures themselves and thereby i
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with elastic connections no matter
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They chewed off some pine cones att
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amidst the constant noise generated
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IPART TWO:The Language of Feeling n
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ACHAPTER 4:World InscapeYou cannot
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milk before bedtime. The weeks in E
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to their future. Something immateri
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explain this connection in the next
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we have a mind because all life is
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within our bodies in space, is enti
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signify that which endures. Sacred
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then the whole of nature must be un
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values and goals. They have convinc
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ACHAPTER 5:Affective Neuroscience:
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to the world. This raises questions
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share with all other organisms, for
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animals that we never would have im
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representation of what exists in th
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which can be as small as a fruit fl
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our interior being expresses itself
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core self as an emotional intermedi
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To show this in his study of brain
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not just hear it in a composer’s
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organism perceives that they might
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perspective, however, most of the a
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mostly unable to explain what is ac
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territory of reality. The unknowabl
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individual identity that goes beyon
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groups of round huts, whose thatche
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Every couple of months Stuart publi
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caused by the rough ending of our j
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thousands of years. By learning to
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contained in the ecological rules t
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understanding means not always taki
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of our flesh and blood. They are di
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Language, often cited as proof of m
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load them like Isuzus,” Getachu s
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ICHAPTER 7:Learning to Think: Mirro
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What a difference from the poor, st
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cognitive abilities a species can h
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self and both realize themselves th
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hump in the middle, which so funnil
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is self, and it understands itself
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self is the translation device, whi
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brain stores the meanings of these
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an external world that is objective
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the mirror system, therefore, we ca
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is an Esperanto of the body, not of
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present. Instead, the world is full
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understood.This intertwining of som
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his smile. In the distance the bare
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CHAPTER 8:Melody of the SoulBirds a
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the style of the 1920s and was once
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Poets continued to heed the Orphic
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time I was living in a rather green
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franca, the universal language whic
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reacted to the soundscapes of their
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purposeful existence is being suspe
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separate from the world, as if they
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other side, it must be grasped by t
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inwardness. This all happens at a d
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What we experience as feeling in th
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TCHAPTER 9:The Principle of BeautyF
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rising tide will lift them up again
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developing ones, stabilizing the wh
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position of a pathologist instead.
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inhabitants of the dark ocean space
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the dew sparkling on spider webs in
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constantly committed. In an analogo
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Barely anything conveys this experi
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a kind of individual distillate of
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through response and reaction produ
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openness introduces the factor of s
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be polished, the gemstones of becom
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major consequences, which without p
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crustaceans and worms and are surro
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WCHAPTER 10:The Body of the SeaWate
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exert on some people. I did not wan
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as a nexus of intersubjects, in whi
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showed up directly at the side of t
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Later, when our chatter died away,
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back. But they arrived late in the
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a defenseless loner. But this commu
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after all? The experience of swarms
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substrate and act according to simp
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with delicate symmetrical openings
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surface of the Gulf which was some
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botanist Konstantin Mereschkowski a
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seriously the role taht the autonom
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see them as, but rather the efflore
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redefine symbiosis itself in a diff
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that our self dissolves into the ot
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disturbance to cancel the former ag
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like ourselves, he reaches up to th
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would have called a “rhizome.”
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We wore heavy boots and had pulled
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suffocated some of the individuals
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explanation of the animal’s whole
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huge developmental shifts in invert
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So why then the maggot and the horn
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other. The body, intending to prese
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bursting bodies and then sank back
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about preserving useful goods or pr
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8CHAPTER 13:Ethics: The Values of t
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my construction. With no multitermi
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like somebody directing a truck to
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What we did on that morning, inside
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first beginning and, through this,
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worth 50 trillion dollars a year, w
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other living beings cannot have int
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contributing to schizophrenia, the
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pensively.ORGANISMS CREATE AN EXIST
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be applied to our lives in a living
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unconscious psychological drives, a
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Then with a short jolt we pull the
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simultaneously.My old live oak in t
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means to codify objective relations
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3.4.5.own psyche. Without nature, w
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historically have developed a host
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SPECIES UNDER SELECTION PRESSURESEP
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This dimension of living reality, t
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trust what they see, smell and hear
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EndnotesFOREWORD1. David Abram, The
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8.9.George Lakoff and Mark Johnson,
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CHAPTER 101. Albert Camus, Summer,
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IndexAadaptation, 122, 250anastomos
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and organisms, 118, 120, 122and sub
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as expressive medium, 10, 95and hum
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W“wild ethics,” 335world inscap
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