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![]() ![]() I call this new viewpoint a 'poetic ecology.'" Andreas Weber shares more in this excerpt from his book, "The Biology of Wonder. ![]() Even the cells self-production, the continuous maintenance of a highly structured order, can only be understood if we perceive the cell as an actor that persistently follows a goal. Organisms value everything they encounter according to its meaning for the further coherence of their embodied self. It finds that even the most simple living things-bacterial cells, fertilized eggs, nematodes in tidal flats-act according to values. But now biology is discovering subjectivity as a fundamental principle throughout nature. His newest book, The Biology of Wonder, Andreas proposes a new approach to the biological sciences that puts the human back in nature. In ecology, and in biology, evidence for the status of other beings as person has. We have also understood human beings as biological machines that somehow and rather inexplicably entail some subjective x factor variously known as mind, spirit, or soul. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being superfluous to the. ![]() ![]() I also describe how this discovery turns our image of ourselves upside down. In The Biology of Wonder Andreas Weber proposes a new approach to the biological sciences that puts the human back in nature. Jun 29, 2021- "In this book, I describe a biology of the feeling self-a biology that has discovered subjective feeling as the fundamental moving force in all life, from the cellular level up to the complexity of the human organism. ![]()
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