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Organism: A Meshwork of Selfless Selves

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Organism and the Origins of Self

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Organism connotes a knotty dialectic: a living system makes itself into a entity distinct from its environment through a process that brings forth, through that very process, a world proper to the organism.

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Varela, F.J. (1991). Organism: A Meshwork of Selfless Selves. In: Tauber, A.I. (eds) Organism and the Origins of Self. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 129. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3406-4_5

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