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Mind arises, and dwells, between the body and the Earth and hence is as much an attribute of this leafing world as of our own immodest species."
David Abram
Becoming Animal
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"The human body, in itself, is no more autonomous - and no more conscious - than an isolated brain. Sentience is not an attribute of a body in isolation; it emerges from the ongoing encounter between our flesh and the forest of rhythms in which it finds itself, born of the interplay and tension between the world's wild hunger and our own.
... Mind arises, and dwells, between the body and the Earth and hence is as much an attribute of this leafing world as of our own immodest species." David Abram Becoming Animal |
Author: AndrewArchives
April 2014
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