Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. They are more or less isomorphic to transformations of reality. The transformational structures of which knowledge consists are not copies of the transformations in reality; they are simply possible isomorphic models among which experience can enable us to choose. Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism…

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. Mine is clearly living. The folde…

Reality contains not only evidence, but also the means (such as our minds, and our artefacts) of understanding it. There are mathematical symbols in physical r…

There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics …

Whatever nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.