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The history of language gives us a reflection of the evolution of human consciousness. It points to a time before we became aware of our own existence as distinct Selves observing a world “out there” and separate from ourselves. How accurate (or inaccurate...

The fundamental pathologies of gene-centered thinking in biology arise from the materialist bent of virtually all reputable biologists. This mindset prevents them from acknowledging the organizing ideas that constitute whole cells and whole organisms...

A science that has for centuries forsworn qualities as “merely subjective” must regard the idea of a qualitative science as a contradiction in terms. Here I offer three examples of current work illustrating what a qualitative science can be — and how...

We know organisms only as wonderfully integrated wholes, and we know inheritance only as an inheritance of whole cells. This truth was obscured during the era of genes and molecular biology, when biologists came to see genes as substitutes for cells...

We cannot explain the purposiveness of organisms by referring to natural selection or cybernetic devices. We must reckon with the organism’s interiority, which includes the play of thinking through the organism, whether conscious or unconscious. In humans...