Evan Thompson

Quotes

• “Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necess...”
• “Only by intertwining these two perspectives, the biological and the phenomenological, can we gain a fuller understanding...”
• “To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynam...”
• “The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, ...”
• “Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm o...”