The intentional nature of self-sustaining systems

Mind and Matter

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-62

  Jordan, J Scott ^a   Heidenreich, Byron A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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