The Nature of Living Being | Buch

Cover: 9783031247880 | The Nature of Living Being | Daniel Carlos Mayer-Foulkes | Buch | xix

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Beschreibung

This book proposes a bold idea. Living beings are distinguishing distinctions. Single cells and multicellular organisms maintain themselves distinct by drawing distinctions. This is what organisms are and what they do. From this starting point, key issues examined range across ontology, epistemology, phenomenology, logic, and ethics. Topics discussed include the origin of life, the nature and purpose of biology, the relation between life and logic, the nature and limits of formal logic, the nature of subjects, the subject-object relation, subject-subject relationships and the deep roots of ethics. The book provides a radical new foundation to think about philosophy and biology and appeals to researchers and students in these fields. It powerfully debunks mechanical thinking about living beings and shows the vast reservoir of insights into aliveness available in the arts and humanities.

Über den Autor

Daniel Mayer (Mexico City, 1956) is a researcher in the epistemology of biology, an organizational consultant, and a leadership educator. For decades he has reflected on the nature of organization, both of organisms and of organizations. This is the topic of this book. This project began in the 1980's during ten years work (four as curator) at The Monkey Sanctuary, then a world-renowned center for conservation of Amazon woolly monkeys in the UK, and has continued during his career as a consultant and as an educator. He has read papers on these topics at the Annual Lonergan Symposium, at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, CA), at the Annual International Gathering in Biosemiotics, and is a regular participant in the Leadership for Change conferences at the University of San Diego. From 2005 to 2019 he was Adjunct Faculty for the Masters of Science in Organizational Leadership at National University, San Diego CA. Founder and CEO of Living Leadership (livingleadership.online), he designs and implements experiential team methodologies for online teaching based on the group-relations approach. Married to Mexican author Vicky Nizri, they have two children and six grandchildren.

Zusammenfassung

Proposes that organisms must be understood in terms of their most fundamental activity of distinguishing

Argues that distinction is the foundation of philosophy and biology

Demonstrates that distinguishing is inherently anticipative, arbitrary, and continually unfolding

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction and Summary

Chapter 1 Distinction-Distinguishing

The Proper Conjugate Form

Inquiry

Monkeys

Monkeys as Philosophical Object

Laura, First Night Sleeping with Her in Room 1

The Problem of Anthropomorphism

Chapter 2 Distinguishing Distinctions

Distinction: A/¿, A=A

Definitions of Distinction

Abstract Definition: Distinction as Perfect Continence

Chemotaxis

Do Only Living Beings Distinguish?

Establishing Bet Structure

Distinguishing as Scheme of Recurrence

Nesting of Distinctions

Repetition and Monkeys

Chapter 3 ¿ and the Emergence of Living Being

The First ¿

What is Life? How did Life Emerge?

Autopoiesis

Homeostasis, Growth, Decay

Autopoiesis with or without Cognition I

What is an Itself

Liposomal Structures and Flow

Autopoiesis with or without Cognition II

Nonliving species and the Limitations of Narrow Darwinism

Chapter 4 Empirical Evidence for ¿

Emergent Probability

Empirical Evidence for ¿: Circadian Rhythms

What Constitutes a Circadian Clock?

Earliest Indication (EI)

EI as Integrator-Operator

Monkeys EIs and Social Life

Chapter 5 Formal Definition of Distinction

Introduction

The Axioms of Laws of Form

Implicit Definition

The Formalism of Laws of Form

Lower and Upper Schemes: Living Being and Mathematics

Living Beings: Joinings

Foundations, and Proper and Borrowed Content of Distinction

Louie and the Rope

Chapter 6 The Mathematical Ideal and the Elision of the Subject

Proper and Borrowed Content of [...] and [...]

Values and Name

Substantialism and Liminalism

Naming as Integrator-Operator

Insights and Expression

Convergence of Platonism and Phenomenology

I/World

Chapter 7 Four Kinds Of Things

Things

Different Kinds of Things

Byproducts

Products

The Nonliving

Joinings: Empirical Evidence in Biology

Autonomous Cells

Living Takes Place in Environments

We are Environments

Endosymbiosis

Major Evolutionary Transitions and Social Evolution

Sexual Reproduction

Chapter 8 [Subjects]

Organisms as Objects and as [Subjects]

Identity-Unity-Whole

Skin and Membranes

Mem-brains

Identity-Unity-Whole and Unity-Identity-Whole

Organisms and Organization

Kate Opens a Door

Charlie Jumping

Chapter 9 Living Being

Boundaries

Microbial Partnerships

Kinds of Wholes

Liminality and Hymenomorphism

Ethics

Relationships

Levinas' Ethics and [Ethics]

Chapter 10 The Paradoxical Nature of Aliveness and [Ethics]

Dis-eliding the Dynamics of Joinings

The Paradox of Relationships

Paradox in Groups

Paradox of Dependency

Paradox of Boundaries

Paradox of Regression

Paradox of Repetition

Inner Conflict, Transparency/Opaqueness and the Unfolding of Anticipation

The Structure of Ethics

Returning Home

A Final Monkey Story: How Charlie Became the Leader of the Group

Postscript

APPENDIX Internal Critique of Laws of Form

Glossary

Bibliography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Biosemiotics
Inhalt:	xix 320 S. 28 s/w Illustr. 8 farbige Illustr. 320 p. 36 illus. 8 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783031247880
ISBN-10:	3031247884
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Mayer-Foulkes, Daniel Carlos
Auflage:	1st ed. 2023
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Biosemiotics
Maße:	241 x 160 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Daniel Carlos Mayer-Foulkes
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.06.2023
Gewicht:	0,676 kg

Artikel-ID: 126044828