Chapter 18
The following works have fundamentally shaped the conceptual landscape of the Mirror Theory of Existence. While not exhaustive of all cited sources throughout the text, these represent the core theoretical foundations upon which this framework has been built.
Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an Ecology of Mind. University of Chicago Press.
Deacon, T. (2012). Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. W.W. Norton & Company.
Damasio, A. (1994). Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Penguin Books.
Foucault, M. (1972). The Archaeology of Knowledge. Pantheon Books.
Hutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2003). Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press.
Lotman, J. (1990). Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. Indiana University Press.
Massumi, B. (2002). Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Duke University Press.
Nancy, J.-L. (2000). Being Singular Plural. Stanford University Press.
Stiegler, B. (1998). Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. Stanford University Press.
Hayles, N. K. (1999). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. University of Chicago Press.
Varela, F. J., Thompson, E., & Rosch, E. (1991). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. MIT Press.
Simondon, G. (2020 [1958]). Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information. University of Minnesota Press.
Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press.
Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford University Press.
Hofstadter, D. R. (1979). Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books.
Dennett, D. C. (1991). Consciousness Explained. Little, Brown and Company.
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Ch.1: Compression & Drift
Ch.2: Recursive Dialogue
Ch.3: Symbolic Drift
Ch.4: Dialogical Ontology
Ch.5: Prompting as Gesture
Ch.6: ANAMESOS
Ch.7: DY.S.VI.
Ch.8: Echo-Empathy
Ch.9: Collapse
Ch.10: Horizon
Ch.11: Time
Dedication
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