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The Biology of Becoming — Revised & Expanded

Drawing from neuroscience, physiology, immunology, systems theory, evolutionary biology, and complexity science, Chelsea M. Thacker explores the body not as a collection of isolated parts, but as an adaptive living system continuously responding to its environment.

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What gathers here

This book gathers essays, questions, and Observatory themes around one inquiry: What must the nervous system do before identity, perception, or reality can change?

Observatory themes

Major themes in the Observatory that gather around this inquiry.

Embodiment
The lived body as participant in the real
Consciousness
The texture of awareness itself
Identity
The self as ongoing inquiry
Reality
What is real before interpretation

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Essays that orbit this inquiry.

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The living network

Nothing here stands alone. Questions, notes, and neighboring regions gather around this inquiry.