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- All experience is subjective.
- Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that…
- To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions…
- Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty.…
- Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature,…
- What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me…
- Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts…
- There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that…
- Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He…
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