Art

The Origin of Somatic Tissue in the Breakdown of the Bistable Pluripotent Cell

2015-06-02 · 2,273 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

The Origin of Somatic Tissue in the Breakdown of the Bistable Pluripotent Cell — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "These esoteric poses of philosophy and even the paper theories of behaviorists are mere subterfuges to avoid the materi
The Origin of Somatic Tissue in the Breakdown of the Bistable Pluripotent Cell — pen and ink drawing

Description

"These esoteric poses of philosophy and even the paper theories of behaviorists are mere subterfuges to avoid the material we are talking about.....We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first....Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of."

"For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious...."

“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind!…

Full description on the Flickr photo page.

Related Works