The physical origins of purposive systems

Deacon, Terrance; Sherman, Jeremy

doi:10.1075/aicr.71.04dea

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Embodiment in Cognition and Culture
Edited by John Michael Krois, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele and Dirk Westerkamp
[Advances in Consciousness Research 71] 2007
► pp. 3–25

The physical origins of purposive systems

Terrance Deacon

Jeremy Sherman

Published online: 8 August 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.71.04dea

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