I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.
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…
- 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
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…
I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena. - 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… - 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…
[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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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