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

When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.

— Francisco Varela

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…

— Francisco Varela

There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to…

— Francisco Varela

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower…

— Francisco Varela

If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing…

— Francisco Varela

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

— 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…

— 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…

— Francisco Varela