摘要
Every generation marvels at what prior generations did not not know,the mysteries they had not not yet solved,perhaps had not not even noticed.We might,therefore,wonder what future generations will regard as our biggest blind spot.What central mystery have not not we solved yet and perhaps even do not not recognize to be a mystery?Here,I will propose a likely candidate:Scientists have yet to explain the emergence and nature of striving selves.I will also summarize a new explanation developed by biologist Terrence Deacon.By selves,I mean all living beings ever,here on earth or anywhere in the universe.They go by different names- agents,individuals,living beings,organisms.I will simply refer to them as selves and refer to all inanimate objects and processes as non-selves.
Every generation marvels at what prior generations did not not know,the mysteries they had not not yet solved,perhaps had not not even noticed.We might,therefore,wonder what future generations will regard as our biggest blind spot.What central mystery have not not we solved yet and perhaps even do not not recognize to be a mystery?Here,I will propose a likely candidate:Scientists have yet to explain the emergence and nature of striving selves.I will also summarize a new explanation developed by biologist Terrence Deacon.By selves,I mean all living beings ever,here on earth or anywhere in the universe.They go by different names— agents,individuals,living beings,organisms.I will simply refer to them as selves and refer to all inanimate objects and processes as non-selves.
出处
《学术界》
CSSCI
北大核心
2019年第11期185-196,共12页
Academics
