Quotes by Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

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“To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.”
— Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
existent individual mind other

“We human beings constitute and reconstitute ourselves through cultural traditions, which we experience as our own development in a historical time that spans the generations. To investigate the lif...”
— Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
becoming culture enculturation generative-phenomenology

“The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.”
— Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
environment meaning organism

“Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.”
— Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
form meaning normativity organism

“Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal...”
— Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
consciousness emergence experience materialism

“Only by intertwining these two perspectives, the biological and the phenomenological, can we gain a fuller understanding of the immanent purposiveness of the organism and the deep continuity of lif...”
— Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
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