Autopoiesis and Cognition
The Realization of the Living
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is a bold, brilliant, provocative and puzzling work. It demands a radical shift in standpoint, an almost paradoxical posture in which living systems are described in terms of what lies outside the domain of descriptions. Professor Humberto Maturana,...
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This is a bold, brilliant, provocative and puzzling work. It demands a radical shift in standpoint, an almost paradoxical posture in which living systems are described in terms of what lies outside the domain of descriptions. Professor Humberto Maturana, with his colleague Francisco Varela, have undertaken the construction of a systematic theoretical biology which attempts to define living systems not as they are objects of observation and description, nor even as in teracting systems, but as self-contained unities whose only reference is to them selves. Thus, the standpoint of description of such unities from the 'outside', i. e. , by an observer, already seems to violate the fundamental requirement which Maturana and Varela posit for the characterization of such system- namely, that they are autonomous, self-referring and self-constructing closed systems - in short, autopoietic systems in their terms. Yet, on the basis of such a conceptual method, and such a theory of living systems, Maturana goes on to define cognition as a biological phenomenon; as, in effect, the very nature of all living systems. And on this basis, to generate the very domains of interac tion among such systems which constitute language, description and thinking.
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Editorial PrefaceGeneral Table Of ContentsForewordIntroduction (by Professor Maturana)Biology Of CognitionDedicationTable of ContentsI. IntroductionII. The ProblemIII. Cognitive Function in GeneralA. The ObserverB. The Living SystemC. EvolutionD. The Cognitive ProcessIV. Cognitive Function in ParticularA. Nerve CellsB. ArchitectureC. FunctionD. RepresentationE. DescriptionF. ThinkingG. Natural LanguageH. Memory and LearningI. The ObserverV. Problems in the Neurophysiology of CognitionVI. ConclusionsVII. Post ScriptumAutopoiesis: The Organization Of The LivingPreface (by Sir Stafford Beer)IntroductionI. On Machines, living and Otherwise1. Machines2. Living MachinesII. Dispensability of Teleonomy1. Purposelessness2. IndividualityIII. Embodiments of Autopoiesis1. Descriptive and Causal Notions2. Molecular Embodiments3. OriginIV. Diversity of Autopoiesis1. Subordination to the Condition of Unity2. Plasticity of Ontogeny3. Reproduction, a Complication of the Unity4. Evolution, a Historical Network5. Second and Third Order Autopoietic SystemsV. Presence of Autopoiesis1. Biological Implications2. Epistemological Implications3. Cognitive ImplicationsAppendix: The Nervous SystemGlossaryBibliographyIndex Of Names
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: H.R. Maturana , F.J. Varela
- 1991, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980., 146 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 22,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- ISBN-10: 9027710163
- ISBN-13: 9789027710161
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.1991
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Englisch
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