The living organism seems to be a macroscopic system which in part of its behaviour approaches to that purely mechanical (as contrasted with thermody… - Erwin Schrödinger

To distinguish between the possession of an organ and the urge to use it and to increase its skill by practice, to regard them as two different characteristics of the organism in question, would be an artificial distinction, made possible by an abstract language but having no counterpart in nature.

Like so many works that have had a great impact on human thinking, it makes points that, once they are grasped, have a ring of almost self-evident truth; yet they are still blindly ignored by a disconcertingly large proportion of people who should know better.

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not part of it...