Concept

Francisco Varela

Overview

Francisco Javier Varela García (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, cybernetician, and neuroscientist who, together with his mentor Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism.

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Philosophers who discussed Francisco Varela

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Evan Thompson
• David Chalmers
• Humberto Maturana
• Michel Bitbol

Related ideas

• Eleanor Rosch
• Cognition
• Philosophy
• French National Centre for Scientific Research
• Buddhist meditation
• Harvard University
• Mathematics
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Meditation
• 14th Dalai Lama
• Paris
• Ilya Prigogine
• Evan Thompson
• Autopoiesis
• Tibetan Buddhism
• Buddhism
• Embodied cognition
• Cognitive science
• Consciousness
• France
• Neuroscientist
• MIT Press
• Phenomenology (philosophy)
• University of Paris

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