Michele Pasin / Quotes

Color doesn't exist outside the brain

As mentioned earlier, color is a well-known example of something that does not exist outside of our brains. There are no colors in the observer-independent…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #perception #brain #observer

Consensual behaviour (linguistic behaviour) has not semantics

An observer could describe these interactions in semantic terms, i.e. one could ascribe meanings to the elements in the coordination of behaviour e.g. "the…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #cats #behavior #system #observer #elements

Constitutive ontologies = second path

In following the second path the observer assumes, quite differently, that the starting point must be the constitutive biological phenomena of being unable to…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #observer #objects #perception #illusion #reality #living

How can subjective observers know the world?

how can subjective observers know anything about the observer-independent world? And as we saw in Chapter 6, we cannot assume that we can know anything about…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #knowledge #objectivity #observer #skepticism

Infinitely many goals explain any behavior

The problem arises because we know that we are intentional systems—our goals are somehow real because we feel like we have goals. Other people might attribute…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #intentionality #behavior #privileged-access #observer