"Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience"
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That intent lands inside a long, contentious tradition: Kant’s claim that space and time are forms of intuition; 20th-century physics unsettling naive realism; and, more directly, Lanza’s own biocentrism, which argues consciousness is not an afterthought in the cosmos but a condition of what we call reality. The subtext is a quiet revolt against reductionism. If spatio-temporal relations are generated, then "objective reality" becomes less a given than a negotiated output of cognition. Suddenly, the most authoritative thing in science - measurement - looks like it depends on the measuring apparatus in a deeper sense than instruments and rulers.
Culturally, this kind of sentence is built to travel: it flatters the scientifically curious reader while smuggling in a metaphysical dare. It doesn’t ask you to deny physics; it asks you to suspect that physics describes the world-as-experienced, not the world-in-itself.
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"Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/our-thoughts-have-an-order-not-of-themselves-but-64461/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.







