As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.
As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experienc… - Francisco Varela
As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experienc…
- Francisco Varela
The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review… - Francisco Varela
The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review…
The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity con… - Francisco Varela
The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity con…
I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena. - Francisco Varela
I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.
[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem… - Francisco Varela
[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem…
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague f… - Francisco Varela
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague f…
When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself. - Francisco Varela
When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.
There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower… - Francisco Varela
There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower…
If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then… - Francisco Varela
If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then…
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