Terrence W. Deacon
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“To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.”
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“Developing formal tools capable of integrating this missing cipher—absential influence—into the fabric of the natural sciences is an enterprise that should be at the center of scientific and philosophical debate.”
― Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
― Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
“This means that if we are able to make sense of absential relationships, it won’t merely illuminate certain everyday mysteries. If the example of zero is any hint, even just glimpsing the outlines of a systematic way to integrate these phenomena into the natural sciences could light the path to whole new fields of inquiry. And making scientific sense of these most personal of nature’s properties, without trashing them, has the potential to transform the way we personally see ourselves within the scheme of things. The”
― Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
― Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
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