Francisco Varela Quotes

The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence

When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.