Book by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela

Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

Francisco J. Varela

Humberto R. Maturana

Science & Math

Shambhala

"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience as well as for students, scholars, and scientists and abundantly illustrated with examples from biology, linguistics, and new social and cultural phenomena, this revised edition includes a new afterword by Dr. Varela, in which he discusses the effect the book has had in the years since its first publication.

The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS,INC.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

At the beginning of the last century, physicists revolutionised the scientific view of the world. Today biologists are radically transforming our understanding of the processes of life and cognition. Probing the mysteries of the mind, they have been able to prove that, in the act of knowing, the observer and the observed, subject and object, are inextricably enmeshed. The world we live in is not independent from us; we literally bring it forth ourselves. One of the protagonists of this new kind of thinking is the internationally renowned neurobiologist and systems theorist Humberto R. Maturana who was interviewed for several weeks by Bernhard Poerksen, journalist, and communication scientist. In this book, they explore the limits of our cognitive powers, discuss the truth in perception, the biology of love, and give, all in all, an introduction to systemic thinking that is down to earth, imaginative, and rich in anecdote.

From Being to Doing. The Origins of the Biology of Cognition.

Bernhard Poerksen

Biological Sciences

Carl-Auer International

çrvore do Conhecimento, A: As Bases Biol—gicas da Compreens‹o Humana

Editora Palas Athena

Un clasico del pensamiento contemporaneo. Esta obra centra su atencion en el conocimiento del ""como conocemos"", o bien, de la manera en que cada individuo logra su propio conocimiento de si y del mundo en que vivimos.

El arbol del conocimiento (Spanish Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Lumen

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