#vonuexkull — Public Fediverse posts

Reading Victor Lowe "Understanding Whitehead" on "organism" some pieces fall into place.

Since we're humans, not machines, thinking about the foundation of epistemology may take von Uexküll's umwelt-innenwelt dialectic as a functional point of view.

As lebewesen we can't do anything against the systemic relation, the analogy, between prehension and metaphysics. This is our grounding.

#AlfredNorthWhitehead #VictorLowe #vonUexküll #metaphysics #organism

@damonyoung for me it was a paper on #vonUexküll's importance to #biosemiotics that opened the door to #philosophy. Now, years later, I see our culturally biased #innenwelt as the key to #phenomenology - it's the most natural thing to conceptualize the #cartesian as a theorized form of innenwelt that is grounded in our #umwelt.