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Francisco J. Varela

Francisco J. Varela, Ph.D., was Fondation de France Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology at the École Polytechnique and the Institute of Neuroscience of Paris. He is also the author of Principles of Biological Autonomy.

Titles by Francisco J. Varela

Gentle Bridges

Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind

Edited by Jeremy Hayward, Francisco J. Varela

Paperback

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978-1-57062-893-1

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What is the essence of the mind? Could computers ever have consciousness? Can compassion be learned? When does consciousness enter the human embryo? These are just some of the many questions that were discussed during a historic meeting that took place between several prominent Western scientists...

The Tree of Knowledge

The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, Revised Edition

By Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela

Translated by Robert Paolucci

Foreword by J. Z. Young

Paperback

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978-0-87773-642-4

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"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general...

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