MCEscher

 

 

 

"We cannot escape the fact that the world we know  is constructed in order

 - and thus in such a way as to be able - to see itself."

George Spencer Brown

 

 

 

 

 

"Minds awaken in the world. We did not design our world. We simply found ourselves with it; we awoke both to ourselves and to the world we inhabit. We come to reflect on that world as we grow and live. We reflect on a world that is not made, but found, and yet it is also our structure that enables us to reflect upon this world. Thus in reflection we find ourselves in a circle: we are in a world that seems to be there before reflection begins, but that world is not separate from us."

(Varela, Thompson & Rosch, 1991, p. 3)

   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enactive cognitive science

Varela, Thompson, Rosch (1991)

 

A proposal for a cognitive science that:

- Is informed by everyday concrete experience.

- Makes a distinction between the perspective of the observer and that of the cognizer, its workings, and its world.

- Takes a starting point in the self-constituting dynamics of biological autonomy.

- Takes the body and its embeddedness in a world seriously.

- Takes value and significance seriously.

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo - University of Sussex

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.... links ....

 

 

wikipedia_Embodied philosophy

 

Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science

 

Second-Order Cybernetics

 

oikos mind-ing ecology

 

The Heinz von Foerster Page

 

Humberto Mariotti

enolagaia - the biology of cognition
autopoietic theory & enactive cognitive science

 

american society for cybernetics

 

instituto de formación matriztica

 

life's natural solutions

 

global vision - communicating sustainability

 

mary catherine bateson - intercultural studies

 

O que ela nos pode dizer sobre uma vida construtiva?

 

Gregory Bateson - research projects

 

wikipedia_Gregory_Bateson

 

enactivism - David Reid