“Being alive means being organized in a certain way. You’re organized to have a certain autonomy, and that immediately carves out a world or a domain of relevance.” Evan Thompson* calls this “life-mind continuity.” Or as Paco Calvo** puts it, echoing the 19th-century psychologist Wilhelm Wundt, “Where there is life there is already mind.”
We are privileged to live at a moment when a new story is …
We are privileged to live at a moment when a new story is being written about how we understand ourselves in the world. The old story said we were all separate from one another; even our bodies separate from our minds. The new story is revealing something …
