Abstract
The perspective opened up through Biopoetics equals the shift in modern physics when scientists realized that an observer is entangled with the object he watches. The development of relativity theory and quantum mechanics led to the revolutionary awareness that in physical science there is no such thing as objective reality. But physicists working with large electron colliders and highly sensitive measuring devices ar not the only ones who can realize this entanglement. From an organism’s standpoint, this is an everyday’s experience. Objectivity in lived life is entanglement.
Everything expresses to different degrees the power of life that Spinoza calls the life of God.
(Paul Ricoeur (1992):317)
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
translation by me, A.W. The original reads: »Kunst verhält sich zur Schöpfung gleichnisartig. Sie ist jeweils ein Beispiel, ähnlich wie das Irdische ein kosmisches Beispiel ist.«
References
Bitbol, M. (2010). L’écologie en première personne. Talk, CREA Paris, 6. April 2010.
Chalmers, D. (1996). The conscious mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Eccles, J. C. (1994). How the self controls its brain. Berlin/New York: Springer.
Hameroff, S., & Penrose, R. (2014). Consciousness in the universe A review of the ‘Orch OR’ theory. Physics of Life Reviews, 11(2014), 39–78.
McCarthy, M. (2015). The moth snowstorm. Nature and joy. London: John Murray.
Midal, F. (2007). Petit traité de la modernité dans l'art. Paris: Pocket.
Ricoeur, P. (1992). Oneself as Another (Soi-même comme un autre) (K. Blamey, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Schuster, P.-K. (2008). Die welt als fragment. Bausteine zm Universum Klee. In Das Universum Klee. Katalog zur Ausstellung. Hg. von Dieter Scholz und Christina Thomson. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, S. 15.
Varela, F. J. (1996). Neurophenomenology: A methodological remedy for the hard problem. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 3(4), 330–349.
von Schiller, F. (2000). Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen: In einer Reihe von Briefen. Hamburg: Reclam.
Miller, H. (1981): "On Writing". In: Reflections. New York: Capra.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Weber, A. (2016). Conatus. In: Biopoetics. Biosemiotics, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0832-4_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0832-4_13
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-024-0830-0
Online ISBN: 978-94-024-0832-4
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)