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Autopoiesis and Cognition

Boston studies in the philosophy of sciencePublished 1 January 1980
Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela
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Abstract

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 th

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Social SciencesNeuroscienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology