Just as the refuge is not untouched by human beings, thinking of it as remote and disconnected from the places where most Americans live is equally wrong.
Elsewhere in this volume she talks about creationism, saying she "didn't believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea" or from "monkeys who eventually swung down from the trees".
That is, one of the beings thinking your current thoughts is an aggregate of person-stages, each of which is psychologically continuous with each of the others and with no other stage.
Keegan has such a wealth of fictive assets at her disposal: a stirring instinct for observing human (and physical) nature; a great, unteachable sense of what a story can simply be about; an appetite for what's important, mingled with an alarming imagination for what human beings might be thinking at unexpectable moments of consequence.
Read on for more on WELL's efforts to, in the words of John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, "change the world of medicine and health". Previously: Strive, thrive and take five: Stanford Medicine magazine on the science of well-being, Thinking about "culture" as part of global well-being and Well check: Rethinking what it means to be "well".
Instead, he maintained, they are thinking beings, even if they might be thinking about different things, in ways entirely different from humans.
And so, if human beings are not thinking about their own purposes, then organizations are not going to be thinking about purpose.
Given a human being who is thinking a certain thought at a certain moment in the actual world, his "counterpart" in a nonactual world that is a perfect local-quality duplicate of the actual world will be thinking the very same thought at the corresponding moment in the history of the duplicate world.
More generally, there would be two thinking beings wherever we thought there was just one.
We do this by being of service to our fellow human beings and thinking constantly of others.
The ability to distinguish between agents and objects is the basis for another important human skill that scientists call "cognitive empathy" (or "theory of mind," depending on whom you ask): the ability to predict what other beings are thinking, and what they want, by watching how they move.
