ABSTRACT

The basic hypotheses of a biology of knowledge concern the general terms of the regulations in the organization of the living being. Redirecting human thought towards the nature-knowledge nexus in the process of evolution, comprising it in the synthesis of that nexus as constituted in form, means liberating it from a conception of knowledge as something detached, it means restoring man to the whole complexity of his being and his evolution. The basic hypotheses of a biology of knowledge concern, in effect, the general terms of the regulations in the organization of the living being. In form, as active synthesis of the evolution process, nature and knowledge proceed as one along the evolutionary scale. The start of that scientific revolution saw a fresh conception of man, of the reality of his nature and his cognitive ability. The defect in that nature-knowledge separation and the resulting view of the dominion of man over nature.