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In a poetic biology the subjective dimension is all-pervasive. Any event has a meaning for the living framework of the body. Any contact towards the world comes about in the sphere of subjective meaning. It is anchored in the expression of a body which displays experiences, i.e. the significations of what has happened to him. Subjectivity becomes visible – be the organism conscious of the experience or not.

“Important is big, affection is warm, intimacy is closeness, bad stinks, help is support.”

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1999)

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Weber, A. (2016). Core Self. In: Biopoetics. Biosemiotics, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0832-4_5

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