Journal of Autopoietic Theory
Associated with the Autopoiesis Email list at autopoiesis-dialognet@yahoogroups.com
Subject Areas of Interest: Autopoiesis, Reflexivity, Emergence; Biology of Cognition; Existential Biology, Sociology and Psychology; Self/(Other)-organization, Self/(Other)-production, Dissipative Ordering Structures, Negative Entropy, Living Systems, Consciousness, Sociality; also apoptosis, allopoiesis, autonomy, closure, observer, cognition, structure, semiotics, cybernetics of all orders, complexity/simplicity, order/chaos/disorder, complex adaptive systems and all subjects listed in ENCYCLOPAEDIA AUTOPOIETICA as well as applications to far from equlibrium thermodynamics, biology of cells and organisms and studies of consciousness, psyche, society, and other related fields. Also the mathematical, scientific and philosophical foundations of systems theory, meta-systems theory or any special systems theories.
Related to the work of Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. (1946 - 2001) but also related work by others such as Luhmann, Niklas; Rosen, Robert; Beer, Stafford; Bateson, Gregory; Kampis, George; Goertzel, Benjamin; Prigogine, Ilya; Kauffman, Stuart and others.
See Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., 1996 and 1997 The Web of Life, Doubleday, New York, 1996 and 1997
See J Mingers, 1995 Self-Producing Systems: The Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis Plenum Press, New York, pp 246, ISBN 0306447975
See Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. 1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA, London, England
Journal of Autopoietic Theory
Associated with the Autopoiesis Email list at autopoiesis-dialognet@yahoogroups.com
Subject Areas of Interest: Autopoiesis, Reflexivity, Emergence; Biology of Cognition; Existential Biology, Sociology and Psychology; Self/(Other)-organization, Self/(Other)-production, Dissipative Ordering Structures, Negative Entropy, Living Systems, Consciousness, Sociality; also apoptosis, allopoiesis, autonomy, closure, observer, cognition, structure, semiotics, cybernetics of all orders, complexity/simplicity, order/chaos/disorder, complex adaptive systems and all subjects listed in ENCYCLOPAEDIA AUTOPOIETICA as well as applications to far from equlibrium thermodynamics, biology of cells and organisms and studies of consciousness, psyche, society, and other related fields. Also the mathematical, scientific and philosophical foundations of systems theory, meta-systems theory or any special systems theories.
Related to the work of Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. (1946 - 2001) but also related work by others such as Luhmann, Niklas; Rosen, Robert; Beer, Stafford; Bateson, Gregory; Kampis, George; Goertzel, Benjamin; Prigogine, Ilya; Kauffman, Stuart and others.
See Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., 1996 and 1997 The Web of Life, Doubleday, New York, 1996 and 1997
See J Mingers, 1995 Self-Producing Systems: The Implications and Applications of Autopoiesis Plenum Press, New York, pp 246, ISBN 0306447975
See Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J. 1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA, London, England
DAVID RUDRAUF, ANTOINE LUTZ, DIEGO COSMELLI, JEAN-PHILIPPE LACHAUX, and MICHEL LE VAN QUYEN
Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cérébrale, CNRS UPR 640,Paris, France
Corresponding Author: David Rudrauf. Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cérébrale, CNRS UPR 640, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75651, Paris Cedex 13, France.
Phone: (33-1) 42 16 11 72 - e-mail: david.rudrauf@chups.jussieu.fr
ABSTRACT
This paper reviews in detail Francisco Varela's work on subjectivity and consciousness in the biological sciences. His original approach to this "hard problem" presents a subjectivity that is radically intertwined with its biological and physical roots. It must be understood within the framework of his theory of a concrete, embodied dynamics, grounded in his general theory of autonomous systems. Through concepts and paradigms such as biological autonomy, embodiment and neurophenomenology, the article explores the multiple levels of circular causality assumed by Varela to play a fundamental role in the emergence of human experience.
