| Every human being, as an autopoietic system, stands alone. Yet let us not lament that we must exist in a subject-dependent reality. Life is more interesting like this, because the only transcendence of our individual loneliness that we can experience arises through the consensual reality that we create with others, that is, through love. | |||
| pp. 62-63 | |||
| Humberto R. Maturana |
"Biology and Language: The Epistemology of Reality" Psychology and Biology of Language and Thought Academic Press, 1978 |
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| Essays in honor of Eric Lenneberg, edited by George A. Miller and Elizabeth Lenneberg. | |||
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