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Ep. 6 - Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Are You a Rational, Reflective Creature?

We are self making things. Term that francisco verella and evan thompson have generated to talk about this as we are auto poetic. What does that mean specifically? Well, for aristotle, it means paying attention to the fact that you are a rational, reflective creature. You're unlike a plant. A plant has this, but all it basically does is actualize its ability to sort of digest. So let's take a look at this. We have inorganic matter, and then it get a particular it's informed, and that makes like a living thing. And that living things can get a more complex structure that make them self moving. That's what an animal,

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