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About Sensations, Emotions and Feelings: A Contribution to the Theoretical Basis of Transactional Analysis
This article is intended to present new thinking and expansion of the knowledge of emotions and feelings within transactional analysis, through a dialogue between Eric Berne, Antonio Damasio and Humberto Maturana. From Berne comes the guiding framework of transactional analysis … Continue reading
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Piaget, Vigotski y Maturana, constructivismo a tres voces
El objetivo del presente texto es presentar una síntesis de tres discursos constructivistas que están presentes y son influyentes en el ámbito de la educación, y que a nuestro entender difi~ren en algunos aspectos esenciales respecto de su concepción o … Continue reading
Posted in Constructivism, Educación, Education, Maturana, Piaget, Vygotsky
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Emociones y Lenguaje en Educación y Política
Humberto Maturana. Me han pedido responder a una pregunta: ¿la educación actual sirve a Chile y a su juventud?, y en caso de respuesta afirmativa, ¿para qué o para quién? Al mismo tiempo, me han pedido que considere esto desde … Continue reading
Constructing Autopoiesis
This essay attempts to explain through an analysis of the limitations of the Lakoff, Johnson and Turner school of cognition and meaning-making, why exactly Arakawa and Gins’ analogical relations with the cognitive science of Maturana and Varela and the philosophy … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Autopoiesis, Cognitive science, Deleuze, Ethics, Maturana, Philosophy of mind, Varela
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Autopoiesis and Critical Social Systems Theory
Maturana and Varela provided the following definition of autopoiesis: “An autopoietic machine is a machine organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production (transformation and destruction) of components that produces the components which: (i) through their … Continue reading
Posted in Autopoiesis, Critical theory, Fuchs, Maturana, Social systems, Varela
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The Organization of the Living – A Theory of the Living Organization
Humberto Maturana. My purpose in this article is to present a theory of the organization of living systems as autonomous entities, and a theory of the organization of the nervous system as a closed network of interacting neurons structurally coupled … Continue reading
Posted in Autopoiesis, Autopoietic organization, Autopoietic systems, Living systems, Maturana
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Reality – The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument
Humberto Maturana. I claim that the most central question that humanity faces today is the question of reality. And I claim that this is so, regardless of whether we are aware of it or not, because every thing that we … Continue reading
Ontology of Observing – The Biological Foundations of Self-Consciousness and of the Physical Domain of Existence
Humberto Maturana. My purpose in this essay is to explain cognition as a biological phenomenon, and to show, in the process, how language arises and gives origin to self-consciousness, revealing the ontological foundations of the physical domain of existence as … Continue reading
Posted in Autopoiesis, Biology of cognition, Cognition, Language, Maturana, Observer, Observing, Self-consciousness
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. The book that you hold in your hands is not just another introduction to the biology of cognition. It is a complete outline for an alternative view of the biological roots of understanding. From the … Continue reading
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Maturana’s Biology and Some Possible Implications for Education
Maturana is a biologist. He makes it very clear that he speaks and writes only as a biologist. Others may apply his work to other spheres; however he himself does not. This paper is based on notes taken during a … Continue reading
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