What is the biological and epistemological foundation of consciousness, knowledge,and reality?
Many of the conclusions about consciousness and knowledge which arise from this mode of analysis have been proposed in one way or another by scientists and philosophers from thier intuitive understanding, but never, to my knowledge, with an adequate biological and epistemological foundation, This I have done through the distinction between what pertains to the domain of the observer, and what pertains to the domain of the organism, and through carrying to their ultimate consequences the implications of the circular self-referring organizations of the living systems: the implications of the functionally closed nature of the relativistic organization of the nervous system as a system under continuous transformation determined by relations of neuronal activity without the system ever stepping outside itself; and the implications of the non-informative orienting function of linguistic interactions. (BC 90)
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