Quotes from Terrence W. Deacon

To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.

Developing formal tools capable of integrating this missing cipher—absential influence—into the fabric of the natural sciences is an enterprise that should be at the center of scientific and philosophical debate.

Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!