Insofar as we can assume that all living creatures have mental life and inanimate objects do not, this conclusion can be generalized as follows: living bodies are proper physical systems; they can be carved out of their context. Therefore, only the inanimate universe as a whole—that is, one universal von Neumann chain—and individual living bodies are proper physical systems; only the inanimate universe and living bodies are observers. Everything else is akin to gures traced on tree bark
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