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As we find out more about brain function, events in the brain associated with being and experience become amenable to description in terms of ordered, lawful processes and relationships, and so the division of the world into observer and the observed is transformed and needs to be re-examined.
Here on this island, friend, you find
The order of nature has no inner, has no outer —
Centered nowhere, yet everywhere
. . . Touch it and be touched!
This work was supported in part by NIH grants, numbers NB06124FR00268 and MH07292. The author gratefully acknowledges the help of Michael Kohn, Don Litchfield and Robert Saron in the preparation of this paper.
Thanks are due to the publishers of Zygon and to McGraw Hill Book Co. for permission to include some of the material in this chapter.
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Clynes, M. (1969). Toward a Theory of Man: Precision of Essentic form in Living Communication. In: Leibovic, K.N. (eds) Information Processing in The Nervous System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87086-6_10
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