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| ISBN |
9789027710161 |
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9027710155 |
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9789027710154 |
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9027710163 |
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| ISBN |
9789400989474 |
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| Classification number |
ZZ 1. |
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| Personal author |
Maturana, Humberto R |
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| Title |
Autopoiesis and cognition : |
| Subtitle |
the realization of the living / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela ; with a pref. to "Autopoiesis" by Stafford Beer. |
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[E-book] |
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| Place of publication |
Dordrecht, Holland : |
| Publisher |
Springer, |
| Date |
1980. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Physical description |
xxx, 141p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES TITLE |
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| Series statement |
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; |
| Volume |
v. 42 |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Bibliography: p. 139-140. |
| 505 ## - CONTENTS |
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| Contents |
Table Of Contents<br/>Front<br/>EDITORIAL PREFACE<br/>GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/>FOREWORD<br/>INTRODUCTION<br/>BIOLOGY OF COGNITION<br/>TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/>III. COGNITIVE FUNCTION<br/>IV. COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN PARTICULAR<br/>V. PROBLEMS IN THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF COGNITION<br/>VI. CONCLUSIONS<br/>POST SCRIPTUM<br/>AUTOPOIESIS<br/>TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/>PREFACE<br/>ON MACHINES, LIVING AND OTHERWISE<br/>DISPENSABILITY OF TELEONOMY<br/>EMBODIMENTS OF AUTOPOIESIS<br/>DIVERSITY OF AUTOPOIESIS<br/>PRESENCE OF AUTOPOIESIS<br/>APPENDIX<br/>GLOSSARY<br/>BIBLIOGRAPHY<br/>INDEX OF NAMES<br/>BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE<br/> |
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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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| Subject term |
Biology |
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5385 |
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| Subject term |
Cognition |
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| Subject term |
Nature |
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Varela, Francisco J |
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| Uniform title |
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation |
v. 42. |
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<a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/slamnhs/detail.action?docID=3108447">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/slamnhs/detail.action?docID=3108447</a> |
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South London and Maudsley Trust staff and students click here for e-book access (NHS OpenAthens login required) |
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