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 dynam — Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, — Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm o — Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necess — Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
We human beings constitute and reconstitute ourselves through cultural traditions, which we experience as our own develo — Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
Only by intertwining these two perspectives, the biological and the phenomenological, can we gain a fuller understanding — Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind