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Álvarez-Vázquez J. Y. (2016) Animated machines, organic souls: Maturana and Aristotle on the nature of life. International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences 3(1): 67–78. https://cepa.info/7842
Álvarez-Vázquez J. Y.
(
2016
)
Animated machines, organic souls:
Maturana
and Aristotle on the nature of life
.
International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences
3(1): 67–78.
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The emergence of mind is a central issue in cognitive philosophy. The main working assumption of the present paper is that several important insights in answering this question might be provided by the nature of life itself. It is in this line of thinking that this paper compares two major philosophical conceptualizations of the living in the history of theoretical biology, namely those of
Maturana
and Aristotle. The present paper shows how both thinkers describe the most fundamental properties of the living as autonomous sustenance. The paper also shows how these theoretical insights might have a consequence upon our understanding of a specific constructiveness of human cognition, here referred to as enarrativity, if this can be considered in a structural as well as evolutionary connection with the structure of life as such. The paper finally suggests that the structural connection made here can be traced from the fundamental organization of self-preservation to survival behaviors to constructive orientation and action.
Key words:
autopoiesis
,
soul
,
system theory
,
organism
,
cognitive philosophy
,
enarrativity
,
theoretical biology.
Baron P. (2022) Using Social Media to Take Maturana’s Biology of Cognition Into the Mainstream. Constructivist Foundations 18(1): 131–134. https://cepa.info/8213
Baron P.
(
2022
)
Using Social Media to Take
Maturana
’s Biology of Cognition Into the Mainstream
.
Constructivist Foundations
18(1): 131–134.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/8213
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Open peer commentary on the article “In
Maturana
’s Wake: The Biology of Cognition’s Legacy and its Prospects” by Randall Whitaker.
Abstract:
Influential texts are often long, complicated, dense, and difficult to read. While these texts have their place, it seems they are not utilized by the masses as frequently as content that is shorter, easier to understand, practical, and in a format that is more interactive. A proposal is made for practical applications of
Maturana
’s research to be presented in short videos to improve the understandability of his ideas while also increasing its popularity and value.
Becerra G. (2016) De la autopoiesis a la objetividad: La epistemología de Maturana en los debates constructivistas [From autopoiesis to objectivity: Maturana’s epistemology within the constructivist debates]. Opción. Revista de ciencias humanas y sociales 32(80): 66–87. https://cepa.info/4528
Becerra G.
(
2016
)
De la autopoiesis a la objetividad: La epistemología de
Maturana
en los debates constructivistas [From autopoiesis to objectivity:
Maturana
’s epistemology within the constructivist debates]. Opción
.
Revista de ciencias humanas y sociales
32(80): 66–87.
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This paper analyzes Humberto
Maturana
’s understanding abour the objectivity of scientific knowledge through a critical dialogue with other contemporary epistemological constructivist theories. The two subjects discussed are the relations between knowledge-reality and knowledge-society, which are the most common senses that guide the philosophical discussion about objectivity. This paper also includes a systematization of the main theses of Matuana’s biology of cognition, and a brief evaluation of the role of the notion of “autopoiesis” for the understanding of objectivity.
Key words:
autopoiesis
,
objectivity
,
constructivism
,
epistemology
,
humberto maturana.
Berman M. (1989) The roots of reality: Maturana and Varela’s the Tree of Knowledge. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 29(2): 277–284. https://cepa.info/4666
Berman M.
(
1989
)
The roots of reality:
Maturana
and Varela’s the Tree of Knowledge
.
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
29(2): 277–284.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4666
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The Tree of Knowledge, by Humberto
Maturana
and Francisco Varela, is a landmark attempt to integrate biology, cognition, and epistemology into a single science, reversing the dualism of fact and value, and of observer and observed, that has haunted the West since the seventeenth century. The authors see perception as a reciprocal and interacting phenomenon, a “dance of congruity” that takes place between a living entity and its environment. This, they argue, implies a relativity of worldviews (there are no certainties), as well as the existence of a biology of cooperation going back millions of years. Recognition of a lack of absolutes, and of the nature of perception itself, they assert, make it possible for us today to change things for the better, as a deliberate and conscious act. What is overlooked in this discussion, however, are the origins and nature of conflict. By being pointedly apolitical, the authors wind up implying that one worldview is as good as the next. Cognitively speaking, the substitution of Buddhism for politics is a serious error, leaving, as it does, too many crucial questions unanswered. It is thus doubtful whether the biological argument being advanced here can stand up to serious scrutiny, and whether the dualism of modern science has indeed been overcome. Yet The Tree of Knowledge remains an important milestone in our current efforts to recognize that science is not value-free, and that fact and value are inevitably tied together. We are finally going to have to create a science that does not split the two apart, and that puts the human being back into the world as an involved participant, not as an alienated observer.
Birch J. (1991) Re-inventing the already punctured wheel: reflections on a seminar with Humberto Maturana. Journal of Family Therapy 13: 349–373. https://cepa.info/2798
Birch J.
(
1991
)
Re-inventing the already punctured wheel: reflections on a seminar with Humberto
Maturana
.
Journal of Family Therapy
13: 349–373.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/2798
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Three central themes of
Maturana
’s work – autopoiesis, the biology of cognition, and cybernetic ontology – are examined. Evidence is offered that
Maturana
’s treatment of these themes is either unoriginal or flawed. The uncritical acceptance of
Maturana
’s work by family therapists raises questions about the maturity of their discipline, especially in so far as many practitioners claim an understanding of cybernetics.
Blassnigg M. (2010) Review of The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love by Humberto Maturana Romesin and Gerda Verden-Zöller. Leonardo 43(2): 182–183. https://cepa.info/4121
Blassnigg M.
(
2010
)
Review of The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love by Humberto
Maturana
Romesin and Gerda Verden-Zöller
.
Leonardo
43(2): 182–183.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4121
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Excerpt:
The Origin of Humanness, written in the early 1990s, brings together two strands of research:
Maturana
Romesin’s research into the origin of humanness and Verden-Zöller’s research into the rise of self-consciousness in the child during early mother-child play relations. The authors’ core claim is that the human species has evolved by conserving love as a fundamental domain of cooperation expressed through the basic emotions or moods of mutual respect, care, acceptance and trust (Homo sapiens-amans) rather than competition and aggression (Homo sapiens aggressans or arrogance). In this, they do not declare an ethical imperative, but rather situate ethics in biology, since, in their view, a responsible concern for the well-being of the other (human, species, biosphere, etc.) arises naturally from a manner of living in the biology of love. This is what they propose as a way for conserving the existence of social human beings (and what they call “social consciousness”) and for countering the dominant culture of domination, submission or indifference in Western society. Ethics, in this sense, is a choice of emotioning on an individual basis that in relation to a social community defines how a particular manner of living is to be conserved over the coming generations.
Bloch S. & Maturana H. R. (1971) Oil droplets distribution and colour discrimination in the pigeon. Nature New Biology 234: 284–285. https://cepa.info/538
Bloch S.
&
Maturana
H. R.
(
1971
)
Oil droplets distribution and colour discrimination in the pigeon
.
Nature New Biology
234: 284–285.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/538
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This paper is universally misattributed to Volume 239 and pages 284–295. This entry has been verified against the journal’s own listings.
Bond P. (2004) Maturana, Technology, and Art: Is a Biology of Technology Possible? Cybernetics & Human Knowing 11(2): 49–70. https://cepa.info/3389
Bond P.
(
2004
)
Maturana
, Technology, and Art: Is a Biology of Technology Possible?
.
Cybernetics & Human Knowing
11(2): 49–70.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/3389
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This paper is a celebration of
Maturana
as an artist, who, in his writing, has brought forth a model, or perhaps it can be called a social ideal, in which people coexist in love, mutual respect and honesty, a form of coexistence from which social responsibility ought to arise spontaneously.
Maturana
, by openly inviting re?ection upon the condition of humanity, on the nature of humanness, and, in his critique of the concept of metadesign, our addiction to technology, becomes an artist. In his own words, he becomes a poet of daily life. It is in this role that
Maturana
has provoked an exploration to begin into the possibilities of extending the application of his biology of cognition, and his insights into the phenomena of technology and art, to understanding and resolving the problems created by our apparent inability to regulate the development of technology.
Boycott B. B., Lettvin J. Y., Maturana H. R. & Wall P. D. (1965) Octopus optic responses. Experimental Neurology 12(3): 247–256. https://cepa.info/532
Boycott B. B.
,
Lettvin J. Y.
,
Maturana
H. R.
&
Wall P. D.
(
1965
)
Octopus optic responses
.
Experimental Neurology 12(3): 247–256.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/532
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Brocklesby J. (2007) The theoretical underpinnings of soft systems methodology-comparing the work of Geoffrey Vickers and Humberto Maturana. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 24(2): 157–169. https://cepa.info/2800
Brocklesby J.
(
2007
)
The theoretical underpinnings of soft systems methodology-comparing the work of Geoffrey Vickers and Humberto
Maturana
.
Systems Research and Behavioral Science
24(2): 157–169.
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This paper seeks to juxtapose the work of Sir Geoffrey Vickers and Humberto
Maturana
with a view to thinking more about the theoretical underpinnings of Peter Checkland’s soft systems methodology (SSM) and of soft systems and soft operational research more generally. The paper argues that
Maturana
’s ‘Theory of the Observer’ can usefully complement Vickers by specifying more precisely the nature of the cognitive structures that underpin people’s descriptions of situations, by clarifying the relationship between cognitive creativity and the historical and relational constraints that bear upon people’s descriptions and explanations, and by providing a more complete description of the dynamics that underpin individual and social learning.
Key words:
Appreciative system
,
soft systems
,
theory of the observer
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