All doing is knowing, and all knowing is doing.
All doing is knowing, and all knowing is doing.
Enactive-Cognition
Autopoiesis is the mechanism that makes living systems autonomous.
Autopoiesis is the mechanism that makes living systems autonomous.
Cognition is not the representation of a pre-given world by a pre-given mind, but is rather the e...
Cognition is not the representation of a pre-given world by a pre-given mind, but is rather the enactment of a world and a mind.
Every act of knowing brings forth a world.
Every act of knowing brings forth a world.
Evolution has no purpose; it simply drifts with the only constraint of maintaining structural cou...
Evolution has no purpose; it simply drifts with the only constraint of maintaining structural coupling.
If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially sh...
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 perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement …
The living being and its environment are mutually enfolded in multiple ways, and so what constitu...
The living being and its environment are mutually enfolded in multiple ways, and so what constitutes the world of a given organism is enacted by that organism’s history of structural coupling.
We do not see the world as it is, we see the world as we are.
We do not see the world as it is, we see the world as we are.
Wisdom consists in being open to the groundlessness of experience.
Wisdom consists in being open to the groundlessness of experience.
Profile: Francisco Varela
Francisco Varela (1946-2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, and cognitive scientist who developed theories of autopoiesis and enactive cognition. His work integrated biological research with …