The observer does not exist alone, because his existence necessarily entails at least an other being as a necessary condition for the establishment of the consensual domain in which he exists as an observer.
pp. 60-61
Humberto R. Maturana "Biology and Language: The Epistemology of Reality"
Psychology and Biology of Language and Thought
Academic Press, 1978
Essays in honor of Eric Lenneberg, edited by George A. Miller and Elizabeth Lenneberg.

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