Who interacts with the outside world: an organism or a person?
Interacting with the outside world, a person sometimes behaves like an organism, sometimes manifests himself as a person. The body can react, behaves — a person. The body has needs, goals and values - only a person has. The body more often feels and feels, a person uses the mind more often: he thinks and makes decisions. For the organism there is only he himself, everything else for him is external, an introject. A person as a person lives by what is dear to him, by his values. And values are always external: his home or country, his parents or children, his beloved or beloved. And also his projects, his work, his mission — that big thing for which he lives, which gives his life meaning, and not just satisfaction. See →