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Autopoiesis and Cognition

Author : H.R. Maturana
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400989474
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Autopoiesis and Cognition written by H.R. Maturana and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Autopoiesis and Cognition

Author : Humberto R. Maturana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Autopoiesis and Cognition written by Humberto R. Maturana and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autopoiesis, a Theory of Living Organizations

Author : Milan Zeleny
Publisher : North-Holland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Autopoiesis, a Theory of Living Organizations written by Milan Zeleny and published by North-Holland. This book was released on 1981 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Self-Producing Systems

Author : John Mingers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489910220
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Self-Producing Systems written by John Mingers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Mingers' new volume, Self-Producing Systems: Implications and Ap plications of Autopoiesis, is a much-needed reference on autopoiesis, a subject penetrating many disciplines today. I can genuinely say that I enjoyed reading the book as it took me stage by stage through a clear and easy-to-grasp understanding of the concepts and ideas of auto poiesis and then, as the book's title suggests, on through their applica tions. I found the summary in Chapter 12 particularly useful, helping to crystalize the main points of each chapter. The book conveyed enthusi asm for the subject and stimulated my interest in it. At times the book is demanding, but only because of the breadth of the subject matter, the terms and concepts associated with its parts, and the challenge of keep ing hold of all this in the mind at once. This is an exceptional text. ROBERT L. FLOOD Hull, UK Preface In recent years Maturana's and Varela's concept of autopoiesis, origi nally a biological concept, has made a remarkable impact not just on a single area, but across widely differing disciplines such as sociology, policy science, psychotherapy, cognitive science, and law. Put very briefly, the term autopoiesis connotes the idea that certain types of sys tems exist in a particular manner-they are self-producing systems. In their operations they continuously produce their own constituents, their own components, which then participate in these same production pro cesses.

From Being to Doing

Author : Humberto R Maturana
Publisher : Carl-Auer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849781119
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book From Being to Doing written by Humberto R Maturana and published by Carl-Auer Verlag. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the last century, physicists revolutionised the scientific view of the world. Today biologists are radically transforming our understanding of the processes of life and cognition. Probing the mysteries of the mind, they have been able to prove that, in the act of knowing, the observer and the observed, subject and object, are inextricably enmeshed. The world we live in is not independent from us; we literally bring it forth ourselves. One of the protagonists of this new kind of thinking is the internationally renowned neurobiologist and systems theorist Humberto R. Maturana who was interviewed for several weeks by Bernhard Poerksen, journalist, and communication scientist. In this book, they explore the limits of our cognitive powers, discuss the truth in perception, the biology of love, and give, all in all, an introduction to systemic thinking that is down to earth, imaginative, and rich in anecdote.

Uninterrupted Knowledge Creation

Author : Kaj U. Koskinen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030573036
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Uninterrupted Knowledge Creation written by Kaj U. Koskinen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common charge leveled against the autopoietic perspective is that it does not explain change or, consequently, knowledge creation. This book demonstrates that knowledge creation is not always an ongoing process, as is claimed in many process philosophy and autopoietic research works. The author introduces the idea of recursivity, which represents the explanatory potential for uninterrupted knowledge creation and paves the way for interaction between process (e.g. production) and stability (e.g. structure). The book describes the nature and role of recursivity in detail, especially in terms of how a system’s structure and production become media for one another. The book also acknowledges the value of the systems perspective on organizations in management studies, but suggests a different approach to defining systems, one that includes autopoietic elements.

Sociocybernetics

Author : Rudolf F. Geyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313074275
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Sociocybernetics written by Rudolf F. Geyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-01-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to shed light on recent developments in sociocybernetic research, this volume represents recent and advanced thinking in this rapidly developing field. The authors address the core problems in social science caused by increasing societal complexity and analyze the inadequacy of many of the methodological tools still used for grappling with nonlinear, self-organizing systems. Together, the 18 contributors propose elements of a new methodology based on sociocybernetic principles aimed at describing and explaining the growth of societal complexity, the contribution of autopoiesis of societal subunits to more societal complexity, and the new simulation-based methodology needed to observe complex social systems. This unique volume contributes to a greater understanding of sociocybernetics and its uses as a method for researching modern problems of increasing complexity and interdependence. The first part of the book deals with increasing societal complexity and contains chapters on its overall development, the complexity of brain-environment interaction loops, organizational change, the development of human values, and the increasing interpenetration of societal subsystems. The second part concentrates on a current issue in sociocybernetics: autopoiesis, or self-production. The chapters included in Part II concentrate on embodied cognition, on the applicability of autopoiesis to business firms, on its roots in Aristotelian philosophy, and on the possibility of societal control and steering in democratic societies. Part III, more focused on methodology, discusses the difficulties inherent in observing complex social systems. The chapters deal with the problems of cross-cultural comparative research, simulation of the evolution of social systems, longitudinal simulation of education systems, and the methodological difficulties associated with analyzing the unexpected complexities of mutually interacting nonlinear systems.

Deleuze and the Body

Author : Laura Guillaume
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748688048
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Deleuze and the Body written by Laura Guillaume and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be important reading for those with an interest in Deleuze, but also in performance arts, film, and contemporary culture.

Mind in Life

Author : Evan Thompson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674736885
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Mind in Life written by Evan Thompson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is life related to the mind? Thompson explores this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness, drawing on sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, and analytic philosophy. Ultimately he shows that mind and life are more continuous than previously accepted, and that current explanations do not adequately address the myriad facets of the biology and phenomenology of mind.

The Philosophy of Artificial Life

Author : Margaret A. Boden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Artificial Life written by Margaret A. Boden and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the acclaimed Oxford Readings in Philosophy series offers a selection of the most important philosophical work being done in the new and fast-growing interdisciplinary area of artificial life. Artificial life research seeks to synthesize the characteristics of life by artificial means, particularly employing computer technology. The essays here explore such fascinating themes as the nature of life, the relation between life and mind, and the limits of technology.

The Society of Genes

Author : Itai Yanai
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674425022
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Society of Genes written by Itai Yanai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Dawkins popularized the notion of the selfish gene, the question of how these selfish genes work together to construct an organism remained a mystery. Now, standing atop a wealth of new research, Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher—pioneers in the field of systems biology—provide a vision of how genes cooperate and compete in the struggle for life.

Biological Autonomy

Author : Alvaro Moreno
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401798370
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Biological Autonomy written by Alvaro Moreno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Darwin, Biology has been framed on the idea of evolution by natural selection, which has profoundly influenced the scientific and philosophical comprehension of biological phenomena and of our place in Nature. This book argues that contemporary biology should progress towards and revolve around an even more fundamental idea, that of autonomy. Biological autonomy describes living organisms as organised systems, which are able to self-produce and self-maintain as integrated entities, to establish their own goals and norms, and to promote the conditions of their existence through their interactions with the environment. Topics covered in this book include organisation and biological emergence, organisms, agency, levels of autonomy, cognition, and a look at the historical dimension of autonomy. The current development of scientific investigations on autonomous organisation calls for a theoretical and philosophical analysis. This can contribute to the elaboration of an original understanding of life - including human life - on Earth, opening new perspectives and enabling fecund interactions with other existing theories and approaches. This book takes up the challenge.

Self-Organization and Management of Social Systems

Author : H. Ulrich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642697623
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Self-Organization and Management of Social Systems written by H. Ulrich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-organization of systems belonging to quite different discipl ines has been a central topic of synergetics since its beginning. I am therefore particularly plea sed that Hans Ulrich and Gilbert Probst have not only undertaken to organize an interdisciplinary meeting on Self-Organization and Management of Social Systems, but have also edited these articles written by leading scientists after and based upon that symposium. While the previous volumes of the Springer Series in Synergetics were mainly de voted to physical, chemical and biological systems, with only the book by W. Weidlich and G. Haag deal i ng with "Quant i tat i ve Soc i 01 ogy" (Spri nger Ser. Syn., Vo 1. 14), the present volume opens a new perspective. As the reader will notice, the multitude of facets of self-organization is well reflected by various authors belonging to different discipl ines and representing different schools of thought. When such a wide scope of fields - ranging from phy sics to sociology - is covered, it is not surprising that the existence of a "hiatus" between sociology and the natural sciences was felt by some participants.

Tree of Knowledge

Author : Humberto R. Maturana
Publisher : Shambhala
ISBN 13 : 9780877736424
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Tree of Knowledge written by Humberto R. Maturana and published by Shambhala. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 audience as well as for students, scholars, and scientists and abundantly illustrated with examples from biology, linguistics, and new social and cultural phenomena, this revised edition includes a new afterword by Dr. Varela, in which he discusses the effect the book has had in the years since its first publication.

From Being to Doing

Author : Humberto R. Maturana
Publisher : Carl-Auer Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Being to Doing written by Humberto R. Maturana and published by Carl-Auer Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurobiologen og systemteoretikeren Humberto R. Maturana (f. 1928) anskueliggør sin filosofi og teorier gennem samtale og anekdoter, og samtidig dannes et billede af personen Maturana og hans livsanskuelse

The Tree of Knowledge

Author : Humberto R. Maturana
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Tree of Knowledge written by Humberto R. Maturana and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opstilling af en plan for en helhedsforståelse af processerne i biologiske systemer og en diskussion af dette biologiske udgangspunkts konsekvenser for den menneskelige erkendelsesproces

Enaction

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262526018
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Enaction written by John Stewart and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at levels from the cellular to the social. This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive science's classical, first-generation Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Enaction, first articulated by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch in The Embodied Mind (MIT Press, 1991), breaks from CTM's formalisms of information processing and symbolic representations to view cognition as grounded in the sensorimotor dynamics of the interactions between a living organism and its environment. A living organism enacts the world it lives in; its embodied action in the world constitutes its perception and thereby grounds its cognition. Enaction offers a range of perspectives on this exciting new approach to embodied cognitive science. Some chapters offer manifestos for the enaction paradigm; others address specific areas of research, including artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, neuroscience, language, phenomenology, and culture and cognition. Three themes emerge as testimony to the originality and specificity of enaction as a paradigm: the relation between first-person lived experience and third-person natural science; the ambition to provide an encompassing framework applicable at levels from the cell to society; and the difficulties of reflexivity. Taken together, the chapters offer nothing less than the framework for a far-reaching renewal of cognitive science. Contributors Renaud Barbaras, Didier Bottineau, Giovanna Colombetti, Diego Cosmelli, Hanne De Jaegher, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. Andreas K. Engel, Olivier Gapenne, Véronique Havelange, Edwin Hutchins, Michel Le Van Quyen, Rafael E. Núñez, Marieke Rohde, Benny Shanon, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Adam Sheya, Linda B. Smith, John Stewart, Evan Thompson