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Praise forThe Biology of WonderThe
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disconnected.—RICHARD LOUV, autho
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(100% old growth forest-free), proc
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ContentsForeword by David AbramIntr
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plants and microorganisms. It’s o
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or paramecium must choose between c
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organism follows are not abstract.
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participatory ecological ethics tha
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complexity and intelligence becomes
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biology is the topic of this book.A
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personalities, we are dependent on
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naïve or frivolous. Many feel that
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same time is what points beyond our
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redeem science from the cold and te
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IPART ONE:Cells with Aspirations n
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HCHAPTER 1:The Desire for LifeI am
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where I was kneeling. It seemed as
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needs. I had a home here, but what
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law of heredity, the biological equ
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highly complex and intelligent, not
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Francisco Varela, it becomes clear
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other life can we understand our ow
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small goodbye heralding a much larg
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more ingratiating and practiced fol
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Kalevi Kull is part of a growing va
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into my mind for years.The traditio
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in the driver’s seat. I breathed
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resources that only the fittest cou
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suffocation that confined him to hi
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has emerged. I was no longer surpri
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an external environment but rather
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academic odyssey that took him to,
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In every moment bodies are engaged
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carefully at the cycle, you discove
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that I eat is literally now what I
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different grounds (at least speakin
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its continued existence. At the sam
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will struggle for its survival, twi
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belonged to his family for centurie
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the greater whole decides the fate
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one of the founding principles of o
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This view is supported by American
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organisms remains to be seen, but s
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of bordering cells, the temperature
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the complexity of the eye or the br
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orders but of desires and interests
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understand many problematic areas i
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whether the body is as complex as a
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Here we sat, in the shadow of rampa
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meadow,” as the Estonians call it
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does not only manifest inside us. I
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in the ecosystem of which humans ar
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for the capabilities of our green f
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find the reference point for these
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life functions remain subliminal or
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that in the beginning and in the en
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distance, were looking across the s
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their motion had coagulated into a
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in this fleeting moment as I watche
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cases when the body’s natural ten
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reality for an organism. Feelings s
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these poetic gestures of the core s
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contemporary scientists still seem
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an existential meaning conveyed thr
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away from the trigger of this tensi
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cognitive science, is utterly famil
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THE POETRY OF THE SENSESIt is this
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rather, we can reconsider poetry as
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of experience, everything is an int
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experiment reveals a second interes
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IPART THREE:I am Thou n this sectio
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TCHAPTER 6:The Question in the Eyes
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I was searching for the Ethiopian,
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Getachu had gone to the street and
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still looked, long after the sea of
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becoming a living authority in its
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proceed with fresh inventiveness. N
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which embodies the principles neces
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have explored this. Amidst our elab
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computer screen, although it certai
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resting against some stones, and he
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resistant by now? And what about th
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had stayed there all that time with
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terribly wrong when they extrapolat
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above three) are opposed to the imp
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being. In the last consequence this
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newborns — and so all humans and
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foetus, in the infant, in the adult
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level of metabolism, but also on th
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to the core self of an observer.Hum
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Ponty describes as a poetic metaphy
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which is engraved in its gestures,
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guarantors that destiny is real and
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farewell in the evening light burns
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IPART FOUR:Life as Art n this secti
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legendary unicorn. The nightingale
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According to the “Metamorphoses,
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“Tee-re tee-rew tee-rew tee-rewCh
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without crashing down from the bran
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moved in with them, into their back
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in our hand. To the delicate knocki
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There is one sound that reveals the
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leads a shadow life in the images w
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our emotions. Do the tonal sequence
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into human music and in this way to
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forest’s night; the hissing shril
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their respective totality, but as s
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is multiplied by a ubiquitous tingl
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which is real in terms of the body
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NOT ENFORCED BUT BESTOWEDIn such a
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comparable surplus is provided by t
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from food just to keep their body t
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super refined in Homo — can be us
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material shaped by vital import, wh
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matter? Only the most absurd assemb
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equation proving that this kind of
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fundamentally differently from all
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then birdless island. This species
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highly efficient room waiting for i
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not as individual roles.Therefore,
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world. We are connected to it in a
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the coastal town of Vueltas. The sk
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interwoven network stirs. If you pi
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