Quotes About Organism

There is the possible in the organism. The embryo is not simple matter, but matter which refers to the future.

I cut straight through the scribbling to the book, because I have built up in myself a strange expressive organism which can not only interpret the conventional meaning of the book's words and techniques but can even allow itself to be transformed and endowed with new organs by the book.

The natural 'thing,' the organism, the behavior of others and my own behavior exist only by their meaning; but this meaning which springs forth in them is not yet a Kantian object; the intentional life which constitutes them is not yet a representation; and the 'comprehension' which gives access to them is not yet an intellection.

Stimuli...are given to neural elaboration and translated into a linguistic system of the nervous system. Between the exterior world and the living organism, there is an insertion of a whole that orders, coordinates, and interprets: the nervous system is a mirror of the world...The higher animal thus constructs an Umwelt that has a Gegenwelt, a rejoinder in its nervous system.

The world is a mass without gaps, an organism of colors across which the receding perspective, the contours, the angles, and the curves are set up as lines of force; the spatial frame is constituted by vibrating.

We must define 'organism' as everything that has defined norms, an a priori that governs what happens.

There is nothing malicious about a virus. Its sole function is to reproduce. It neither knows nor cares how it affects the host organism. It will continue to replicate until it's no longer able to do so and then it will die.

I will argue that consciousness is not a thing. "Consciousness" is the word we use to describe the subjective feeling of a number of instincts and/or memories playing out in time in an organism. That is why "consciousness" is a proxy word for how a complex living organism operates. And, to understand how complex organisms work, we need to know how brains' parts are organized to deliver conscious experience as we know it.

The release of dopamine is a form of information, a message that tells the organism "Do that again." Dopamine produces the sensation of pleasure that accompanies mastering a task or accomplishing a goal, which makes the organism want to repeat the behavior, whether it is pressing a bar, pecking a key, or pulling a slot machine lever. You get a hit (a reinforcement) and your brain gets a hit of dopamine. Behavior—Reinforcement—Behavior. Repeat sequence.

Socialization, or the transformation of a human organism into a person who functions successfully within a particular social system, cannot be avoided.

The function of consciousness is to represent information about what is happening outside and inside the organism in such a way that it can be evaluated and acted upon by the body.

Not only our organism has a machine structure, but also our modern culture becomes a mechanized association. Filigree study of human behavior, modified by socialization. All this turns us into soulless robots of society.

The basic geography of an organism is entirely based on the life experience of evolution. Constantly corrected by selfishness that will disrupt the basic ecosystem of thinking and human health.

The body is the universal structure of the organism, generated by chaos.

The brain is bleeding from awareness in the inner bio quantum chamber, in which the organism of the personality is grown, which believes that it has lived for eternity.

The genes of this cryptic organism may flag it as a methane-generating anaerobe, but the cells could be ticking over, rather than farting with gay abandon, and contributing little to the chemical balance of the soil. At the time of sampling, it might have been waiting for a dip in oxygen levels that would permit its return to normal flatulent programming.

Sometimes I feel like this whole city is one vast organism. It's like a human being that we're all part of. But we're restricted by the roads, by the waterways, by the tunnels, the trains. It's like our paths are all laid out for us, and there's no way of deviating from them. That's what makes that cat different from us.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

Cybernetics takes the view that the structure of the machines or of the organism is an index of the performance that may be expected from it.

Learning, like more primitive forms of feedback, is a process which reads differently forward and backward in time. The whole conception of the apparently purposive organism, whether it is mechanical, biological, or social, is that of an arrow with a particular direction in the stream of time rather than that of a line segment facing both ways which we may regard as going in either direction.

Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages.

Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages. Just like the cells of the body, its tiniest components, the senses, succumb to apoptosis. Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means "the dropping of petals." The world has dropped its petals.

To blithely say "it could have happened" that a life-permitting, life-producing, and life-sustaining universe is the product of chance is naive. It fails to take seriously all that is required to get from "zero" to a single-celled organism to Homo sapiens.

But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It is only a small factor in the total organism/environment interaction, but it plays the crucial role of finding and making the meanings that we grow by.