The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena. — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms… — Francisco Varela Copy Share
When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself. — Francisco Varela Copy Share
I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena. — Francisco Varela Copy Share
The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a… — Francisco Varela Copy Share
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 Copy Share
As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an… — Francisco Varela Copy Share
If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality,… — Francisco Varela Copy Share
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence — Francisco Varela Copy Share
[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.… — Francisco Varela Copy Share
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… — Francisco Varela Copy Share
