
Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95
Mind & Matter
Cognition Is the Inverse of Life
Every part of a living system carries a kind of trace of the hole that it's a part of. Engineering is in some respects the inverse of life in the way we produce a complex structure. I like to say that cognition, we've got to start thinking about cognition as a living process. Cognition is also differentiating like organisms.
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