Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

By Evan Thompson

Summary

Extends the enactive approach: life and mind share a set of basic organizational principles (autopoiesis, sense-making, precarious autonomy). Consciousness emerges not from neural activity alone but from the dynamic coupling of organism and environment. Develops the concept of "proto-subjectivity" at the level of cellular life.

Why It Matters

The most thorough philosophical development of the enactive approach. Connects consciousness to biology at its most fundamental level.

Notes

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