Tags / 6 quotes from 3 sources
#organisms
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Orphaned from the world and from our bodies
I repeat that the difficulty of understanding the organism/environment polarity is psychological. The history and the geographical distribution of the myth are uncertain, but for several thousand years we have been obsessed with a false humility—on the one hand, putting…
Feeling yourself as the whole process of life
when you know for sure that your separate ego is a fiction, you actually feel yourself AS the whole process and pattern of life. Experience and experiencer become one experiencing, known and knower one knowing. Each organism experiences this from a different standpoint and in a…
Nothing eludes inspection like consciousness
For the human organism is, apparently, the most complex of all organisms, and while one has the advantage of knowing one’s own organism so intimately—from the inside—there is also the disadvantage of being so close to it that one can never quite get at it. Nothing so eludes…
An organism is what it does
To sum up: just as no thing or organism exists on its own, it does not act on its own. Furthermore, every organism is a process: thus the organism is not other than its actions. To put it clumsily: it is what it does. More precisely, the organism, including its behavior, is a…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Living things as hierarchies without central control
All living things, says Feinberg, are nested hierarchies. ‘At the lower levels of an organism are organelles that are combined to produce single cells that are in turn organised to produce tissues, which are then combined to produce organs that are ultimately organised to…
Toward An Ontological Treatment Of Disease And Diagnosis
Disease vs disorder
Disease: A disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism. Epilepsy as a disease that disposes to the occurrence of seizures (pathological processes) due to an underlying abnormality in the…