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Ethical Know-how-Action, Wisdom and Cognition
How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book by Francisco J. Varela addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of … Continue reading
Neurophenomenology, an Ongoing Practice of/in Consciousness
Context • In his work on neurophenomenology, the late Francisco Varela overtly tackled the well-known “hard problem” of the (physical) origin of phenomenal consciousness. Problem • Did he have a theory for solving this problem? No, he declared, only a … Continue reading
Beyond autopoiesis: Inflections of emergence and politics in the work of Francisco Varela
Francisco Varela’s work is a monumental achievement in 20th century biological and biophilosophical thought. After his early collaboration in neo-cybernetics with Humberto Maturana (“autopoiesis”), Varela made fundamental contributions to immunology (“network theory”), Artificial Life (“cellular automata”), cognitive science (“enaction”), philosophy … Continue reading
The Dance of Understanding
We subscribe to the view, expressed by Humberto Maturana and others, that a satisfying experience of understanding does not result from invoking objectivity, the truth, or a compelling argument, to achieve agreement by the force of reason, nor from a … Continue reading
Autopoiesis and Cognition
This article revisits the concept of autopoiesis and examines its relation to cognition and life. We present a mathematical model of a 3D tesselation automaton, considered as a minimal example of autopoiesis. This leads us to a thesis T1: “An … Continue reading
Autopoietic Law: A New Approach To Law And Society
The present debate in legal theory is dominated by an unfruitful schism. On the one hand, analytical theories are concerned with the positivity of law, running the risk of missing the law’s relation to society. On the other hand, sociological … Continue reading
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Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, consider them as concrete … Continue reading
De Maquinas y Seres Vivos
Humberto Maturana y Francisco Varela – ¿Cuál es la organización de los sistemas vivientes, qué clase de máquinas son ellos y cómo su fenomenología, incluidas la reproducción y la evolución, queda determinada por su organización? Es trivialmente obvio que, si … Continue reading
Autopoiesis, Culture, and Society
The concept of autopoiesis has long surpassed the realm of biology. It has been used in areas so diverse as sociology, psychotherapy, management, anthropology, organizational culture, and many others. This circumstance transformed it in a very important and useful instrument … Continue reading
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Enactivism and the Experiential Reality of Culture: Rethinking the Epistemological Basis of Cultural Psychology
The key problem of cultural psychology comprises a paradox: while people believe they act on the basis of their own authentic experience, cultural psychologists observe their behavior to be socially patterned. It is argued that, in order to account for … Continue reading
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