For the Mind, Reality Is Whole
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existence of hierarchically complex objects is confined to the minds of living
observers. Only living minds apprehend complexity and multiplicity. Complexity exists in the universe solely because it is discerned—in fact created—in
minds. It exists only in minds.
It is conjectured in the closing chapter that the emergence of life is not
an accidental property of certain large molecules but is a natural phase of
cosmic evolution. The function of living organisms is to assume the task of
observation, and in this manner to introduce determinate, individual objects
provided with features and a specifiable structure. Also, it is living observers
that bring complex, hierarchically organized things into being. There’s more
to reality than matter and its properties.
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existence of hierarchically complex objects is confined to the minds of living
observers. Only living minds apprehend complexity and multiplicity. Complexity exists in the universe solely because it is discerned—in fact created—in
minds. It exists only in minds.
It is conjectured in the closing chapter that the emergence of life is not
an accidental property of certain large molecules but is a natural phase of
cosmic evolution. The function of living organisms is to assume the task of
observation, and in this manner to introduce determinate, individual objects
provided with features and a specifiable structure. Also, it is living observers
that bring complex, hierarchically organized things into being. There’s more
to reality than matter and its properties.