Affordances for Human Life

In order to illustrate the application of this approach to even more complex natural systems, consider the further example of a human being. Is it possible, or even reasonable, to apply reverse engineering and design recovery techniques in an effort to gain insight into this system Of course, this approach assumes the possibility of a 

This brings up an interesting question what else does the human body afford the consciousness According to Oxford philosopher Richard Swinburne (Swinburne, 2004, p. 169), in order to be able to interact and learn about the environment in which it is placed, and yet still be a humanly free intelfigence, the mind needs the human body to contain  

Sense organs with enormous capacity to receive information regarding distant 

An information processor to turn sense organ states into brain states (resulting in beliefs). 

A memory bank to file states correlated with past experiences (needed to reason). 

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