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15 reviews
Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco Varela

Shambhala, 1992

So, what's your story?
I came to this book years ago through, of all things, a two-year course in business and sales, for which it was required reading along with "Computers and Cognition", another eye-opener; the latter anticipated the current transactional nature of the Internet. You might ask how a work as theoretical and speculative as "Tree of Knowledge" could be part of a pragmatic and hardnosed business course, ...

Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition (Writing Science)

3 reviews
francisco Varela

Stanford University Press, 1999

A Jewel by a Giant
This is an astonishing book, for its brevity, readability, depth, and importance for our time. In the short space of only 75 pages, Varela turns on its head most of today's common sense about where ethical behavior comes from, how we prepare for ethical action, and how wise and ethical people learn to be that way. The exploration Varela reports in the three lectures reproduced here are based on ...

On Becoming Aware: A Pragmatics of Experiencing (Advances in Consciousness Research, 43)

John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2003

This work searches for the sources and means for a disciplined practical approach to exploring human experience. The spirit of this book is pragmatic and relies on a Husserlian phenomenology primarily understood as a method of exploring our experience. The authors do not aim at a neo-Kantian a priori "new theory" of experience but instead they describe a concrete activity: how we examine what we live through, how we become aware of our own ...

Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science (Writing Science)

Stanford University Press, 2000

This ambitious work aims to shed new light on the relations between Husserlian phenomenology and the present-day efforts toward a scientific theory of cognition?with its complex structure of disciplines, levels of explanation, and conflicting hypotheses. The book?s primary goal is not to present a new exegesis of Husserl?s writings, although it does not dismiss the importance of such interpretive and critical work. Rather, the contributors ...

The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

5 reviews
Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson, ...

MIT Press (MA), 1991

This book is amazing!
This ranks up there with Chogyam Trungpa's books for clearly presented insights. Trunpa's genius is making Buddhist ideas come alive for Western readers by clearly presenting Buddhist ideas in everyday terms. This book is a wonderful addition to the same delicious feast, building a bridge from Eastern mindfulness/awareness traditions to Western scientific thought. The effect is to improve our ...

Toward a Practice of Autonomous Systems: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Artificial Life

The MIT Press, 1992

Artificial life embodies a recent and important conceptual step in modem science: asserting that the core of intelligence and cognitive abilities is the same as the capacity for living. The recent surge of interest in artificial life has pushed a whole range of engineering traditions, such as control theory and robotics, beyond classical notions of goal and planning into biologically inspired notions of viability and adaptation, situatedness and ...

Thinking About Biology (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity : Lecture Notes, Vol)

1 review
Wilfred Stein, Francisco J. Varela

Westview Press, 1994

State-of-the-art perspectives on biology theory
Disregard the innocuous title. This is a fascinating text for those interested in exploring biological theory and the emergence of life from the perspective of dynamical systems. The book contains contributions of 14 authors from all over the world discussing leading edge theory from macromolecules to "evolvability" in complex systems.

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Francisco J Varela, Evan Thompson, ...

Seuil, 1997

Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind

2 reviews
Jeremy W. Hayward, Francisco J. Varela

Shambhala, 2001

The Dalai Lama's a great guy,but I think sometimes overrated
This book presents us with a few men of ancient Eastern tradition interlocuting with a few men of Socratic Western tradition on the nature of the world around us. Before any specifics of scientific architectonics are covered, they question the method of science. Logical positivism is questioned, and they do not attempt to invalidate it but do attempt to jeopardize its optimistic infallibility. ...

The View from Within: First-Person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness (Journal of Consciousness ...

1 review

Imprint Academic, 2001

Diversity of Daring Approaches
Despite the temptation to grant only four stars because of some unevenness in the articles, the overall impression of *View...* is that of a "daring diversity of approaches" to understanding consciousness. All of these approaches represent a view from within conscious experience as opposed to the third person study of observed effects or technological readings of another's brain. Simultaneously, ...

Understanding Origins: Contemporary Views on the Origins of Life, Mind and Society (Boston Studies in the ...

Springer, 1992

The question of origins is inseparable from a web of hypotheses that both shape and explain us. Although origin invites examination, it always seems to elude our grasp. Notions have always been produced which seek to interpret the genesis of life, mind, and the social order, and these notions have all been found to be unstable in the face of theoretical and empirical challenges. In any given period, the central ideas on origin have had a ...