Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living

by Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:9027710163

ISBN13:9789027710161

Release Date:January 1980

Publisher:Springer

Length:146 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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