(page 39)
"The long-haul truck driver and his co-driver
in their 4.20-meter high truck
come to an overpass with the sign:
'Only for vehicles less than 3.80 meter height.'
"The driver puts on his brakes and says,
'We have to find another way, we can't get through here!'
"His co-driver replies,
'Come on, step on it. Nobody's looking.'"
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(page 50)
"There is no difference between behavior and insight.
Living beings manifesting the same behavior
furnish the same description of their environment.
"This is a view held by the biologist Humberto Maturana,
who compares behavior as 'first-order description'
with linguistic description as 'second-order description,'
that is, as description of the description."
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(page 51)
"If behavior of the individual is the basis for a consensus on reality,
that consensus can best be achieved where all human beings share
similar or comparable behaviors.
"These behaviors are inevitably an experience determined by
autonomous bodily functions and processes.
"They are experienced as elementary needs and their satisfaction:
hunger/food,
thirst/drink,
tiredness/sleep,
and the like.
"But these bodily necessities only dictate relatively few
stereotypical behaviors that are valid equally
for all people in all cultures."
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