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Bold new ideas about mind, matter, and what makes a living being aware.
The Object of Animal Existence asks how consciousness might arise if living organisms behave like machines, with separate governing elements that can operate apart from the bodily engine. It invites readers to weigh mechanical analogies against the mystery of experience.
Two short-paragraph framing: The work explains a model in which consciousness comes from stable governing systems within the organism, while dynamic forces drive the body’s operation. By comparing animals to machines, it presents a provocative way to understand sensations, thoughts, and the fabric of perception without assuming common sense matches experience.- Consciousness as a product of stable governing elements separate from the body’s engine
- How sensations may be built from discrete brain processes and experiences of resistance
- The idea that sense-symbols are fabricated and can be read like mechanical records
- The use of mechanical analogies to explore questions about intelligence in animals
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book examines the hypothesis that animals, including humans, are machines, and posits that the consciousness of these organisms is a product of the interaction between stable and unstable mechanical elements that form their governing mechanisms. Drawing on scientific research and philosophical analysis, the author argues that the primary function of animal life is to fabricate sense-symbols from the environment, which are then used to create a subjective reality. The book explores the implications of this hypothesis for our understanding of animal intelligence, the nature of consciousness, and the possibility of a future existence beyond the physical body. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781330432877_0
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