Review and Précis of Terrence Deacon’s Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

DOI: 10.3390/info3030290

Keywords: thermodynamics, morphodynamics, teleodynamics, ententional, absential, information, constraints

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We review and summarize Terrence Deacon’s book, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter.

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