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In the Eyes of the Beholder

Anthony Reading: Meaningful Information—The Bridge Between Biology, Brain and Behavior—Springer Science + Business Media, New York, 2011, 158pp, $49.95 pbk, $39.99 ebook, ISBN 978-1-4614-0158-2

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  1. A most defensible or a fail-safe approach to the synthetic notion applied to the integration of the past and the future in the present has been the Kantian regulative principle as explored in the Third Critique, in which only the transcendental ego anchored steadily on a metaphysical ground is solely responsible for maneuvering the reflective principle of regulation that is neither constitutive nor constructive directly in the empirical domain in the physical sense.

  2. The likelihood of a functional matter is sought in those atoms and molecules that can sense their outside. The capacity of sensing or measuring the outside is quite unique in being able to experience what has not yet been experienced. It goes beyond the scope of computable computation to be completed in finite steps with the recursive usages of the irreducible atomic operations that remain invariable, since experience by itself is not sure about whether it could eventually reduce to a recursive sequence of such irreducible atomic operations as echoed in von Neumann’s reservation: “By axiomatizing automata in this manner one has thrown half the problem out the window, and it may be the more important half. One has resigned oneself not to explain how these parts are made up of real things, specifically, how these parts are made up of actual elementary particles, or even of higher chemical molecules. One does not ask the most intriguing, exciting, and important question of why the molecules or aggregates which in nature really occur in these parts are the sort of things they are.” (von Neumann 1966, p. 77).

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Matsuno, K. In the Eyes of the Beholder. Biol Theory 7, 275–277 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0063-1

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