(à esquerda, Francisco Varela)
Nem coloco a capa do livro aqui para não assustar (mas veja o nome da editora...) Aí vão as mal-traçadas da editoria, que nada dizem. Mesmo que v. saiba quem são M & V, e sua abordagem sobre as raízes biológicas da cognição, suas bases filogenética e ontogenética e a natureza do conhecimento e da realidade, vale a pena dar uma olhada nos artigos que coloquei ao final.
"'Saber como nós sabemos' é o assunto desse livro. Seus autores apresentam uma nova visão da cognição que tem importantes implicações sociais e éticas, pois eles afirmam que o único mundo que nós humanos podemos ter é aquele que criamos juntos através das ações de nossa coexistência. Escrito tantopara leitores em geral como para estudantes, especialistas e cientistas, e bastante ilustrado com exemplos da biologia, linguística e dos novos fenômenos sociais e culturais, esta edição revisada inclui um novo prefácio do Dr. Varela, no qual ele discute o efeito do livro desde a época em que foi publicado pela primeira vez".
Tree of Knowledge
Humberto R. Maturana & Francisco Varela
"'Saber como nós sabemos' é o assunto desse livro. Seus autores apresentam uma nova visão da cognição que tem importantes implicações sociais e éticas, pois eles afirmam que o único mundo que nós humanos podemos ter é aquele que criamos juntos através das ações de nossa coexistência. Escrito tantopara leitores em geral como para estudantes, especialistas e cientistas, e bastante ilustrado com exemplos da biologia, linguística e dos novos fenômenos sociais e culturais, esta edição revisada inclui um novo prefácio do Dr. Varela, no qual ele discute o efeito do livro desde a época em que foi publicado pela primeira vez".
Tree of Knowledge
Humberto R. Maturana & Francisco Varela
Shambhala 1992 269 pages PDF 28 Mb
http://rapidshare.com/files/341458992/maturana_Tree_of_Knowledge.rar
(link funcionando)
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Some Differences between Maturana and Varela's Theory of Cognition and Constructivism
JÉRÔME PROULX 2008
University of Ottawa (Canada)
"The cutting-edge work on cognition of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela has had an important influence on those interested in aspects of complexity theory and education, particularly in regard to issues and questions of epistemology, learning, knowledge, objectivity, causality, self-organisation, emergence, ethics, and so on.. Their position on knowledge as not being pre-existent or as “taking things in” and rather as being enacted and emerging through the learner’s engagement with his world is at the core of the complexivist discourse on learning, knowledge and education".
Autopoiesis and Cognition in the Game of Life
Randall D. Beer 2004
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dept. of Biology
Case Western Reserve University
"The concept of autopoiesis provides the foundation for the rest of Maturana and Varela’s framework (Maturana & Varela, 1973). Roughly speaking, an autopoietic (lit. self-producing) system is a network of component-producing processes with the property that the interactions between the components generate the very same network of processes that produced them, as well as constituting it as a distinct entity in the space in which it exists. The paradigmatic example of autopoiesis is a cell, in which the components are molecules, the interactions are chemical reactions, and the cell membrane serves as a physical boundary that spatially localizes these reactions into an entity (or “unity”) distinguishable from its environment".
Saiba alguma coisa sobre:
http://rapidshare.com/files/341458992/maturana_Tree_of_Knowledge.rar
(link funcionando)
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Some Differences between Maturana and Varela's Theory of Cognition and Constructivism
JÉRÔME PROULX 2008
University of Ottawa (Canada)
"The cutting-edge work on cognition of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela has had an important influence on those interested in aspects of complexity theory and education, particularly in regard to issues and questions of epistemology, learning, knowledge, objectivity, causality, self-organisation, emergence, ethics, and so on.. Their position on knowledge as not being pre-existent or as “taking things in” and rather as being enacted and emerging through the learner’s engagement with his world is at the core of the complexivist discourse on learning, knowledge and education".
Autopoiesis and Cognition in the Game of Life
Randall D. Beer 2004
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Dept. of Biology
Case Western Reserve University
"The concept of autopoiesis provides the foundation for the rest of Maturana and Varela’s framework (Maturana & Varela, 1973). Roughly speaking, an autopoietic (lit. self-producing) system is a network of component-producing processes with the property that the interactions between the components generate the very same network of processes that produced them, as well as constituting it as a distinct entity in the space in which it exists. The paradigmatic example of autopoiesis is a cell, in which the components are molecules, the interactions are chemical reactions, and the cell membrane serves as a physical boundary that spatially localizes these reactions into an entity (or “unity”) distinguishable from its environment".
Saiba alguma coisa sobre:
Francisco J. Varela (1946–2001)
Tribute by Evan Thompson 2001
Francisco Varela (1946-2001)
Terry Marks-Tarlow and Mario E. Martinez
Autopoiesis and Cognition
Paul Bourgine
CREA Ecole Polytechnique
John Stewart
CNRS COSTECH Centre Pierre Guillaumat
Université de Compiègne
"Abstract. This article revisits the concept of autopoiesis and examines its relation to cognition and life. We present a mathematical model of a 3D tesselation automaton,
considered as a minimal example of autopoiesis. This leads us to a thesis T1: “An autopoietic system can be described as a random dynamical system, which is defined only within its organized autopoietic domain.” We propose a modified definition of autopoiesis: “An autopoietic system is a network of processes that produces the components that reproduce the network, and that also regulates the boundary conditions
necessary for its ongoing existence as a network.” We also propose a definition of cognition: “A system is cognitive if and only if sensory inputs serve to trigger actions in a specific way, so as to satisfy a viability constraint.” It follows from these definitions that the concepts of autopoiesis and cognition, although deeply related in their connection with the regulation of the boundary conditions of the system, are not immediately identical: a system can be autopoietic without being cognitive, and cognitive without being autopoietic. Finally, we propose a thesis T2: 'A system that is both autopoietic and cognitive is a living system'.”
Humberto Maturana
Uma pequena descrição da vida profissional de Maturana, tão pequena que nem cita Varela (que, afinal de contas, colocou Maturana no mapa).
