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To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.
Evan Thompson Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
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To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.
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Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

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