Life and mind: From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology. A tribute to Francisco Varela

By Evan Thompson. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Plant Science

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Making Sense of Sense-Making: Reflections on Enactive and Extended Mind Theories (2009, background): “The enactive approach is based on a number of mutually supporting core concepts, such as autonomy, sense-making, emergence, embodiment, and experience (De Jaegher and Di Paolo 2007; Thompson 2004, 2007; Varela et al. 1991).”
Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency (2005, background): “Weber and Varela (2002) argue that if we follow Kant’s exposition of natural teleology in his Critique of Judgment, there is room for doubt regarding its ontological implications.”
Sensorimotor subjectivity and the enactive approach to experience (2005, background): “My aim in this paper is to build on these advances in order to address what I have elsewhere called the “body-body problem,” the problem of how to relate one’s subjectively lived body to the organism or living body that one is (Hanna and Thompson 2003; Thompson 2004).”
Enactive artificial intelligence: Investigating the systemic organization of life and mind (2009, background): “Taylor (1962) proposed a promising framework for interpreting this kind of sensorimotor adaptation by incorporating insights from the field of cybernetics in the form of Ashby’s (1960) work on homeostasis and ultrastability in living systems.”
Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology (2019, methodology): “The term was used by Varela to say that lived experience is the “basic ground” on which to understand life (Thompson 2004).”
Defining Agency: Individuality, Normativity, Asymmetry, and Spatio-temporality in Action (2009, background): “We call this process sense-making (Di Paolo, 2005; Thompson, 2004) for what would otherwise be a mere event or occurrence becomes valued.”
Sociality and the life–mind continuity thesis (2009, background): “It has been demonstrated in the field of artificial life that even interactions between minimal kinds of 'agents' can give rise to interaction processes that are characterized by autonomous dynamics, i.e. which self-sustain their identity as processes by modulating the behavior of the interactors…”