The early days of autopoiesis: Heinz and Chile

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 407-416

  Varela, Francisco J ^a  

^a Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

Autopoiesis; Chile; Cognition; Epistemology; Heinz von Foerster

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007276061     PISSN: 00057940     EISSN: 1932300X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1735(199609)13:3<407::aid-sres100>3.3.co;2-t     Document Type: Article

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1. See in particular the 'classic': H. Maturana, J. Lettvin, W. McCulloch and W. Pitts (1960), anatomy and physiology of vision in the frog, Journal of General Physiology 43, 129-175.
2. F. Varela and H. Maturana (1970), Time course of excitation and inhibition in the vertebrate retina, Experimental Neurology 26, 53-59.
3. T. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Harvard University Press, 1970.
4. For a selection of these and other articles see: H. von Foerster, Observing Systems: Selected Papers, Interscience, California, 1979.
5. A selection of his most important work appeared in 1975: W.S. McCulloch, Embodiments of the Mind, MTT Press, Cambridge, MA.
6. For an extraordinary account of the early days of cybernetics and the Macy Conferences see: J.P. Dupuy (1994), Aux Sources des Sciences Cognitives, Editions La Découverte, Paris.
7. P. Garvin (Ed.), Cognition: A Multiple View, Spartan Books, Washington, 1970.
8. J. Piaget, Biologie et Connaissance, Gallimard, Paris, 1969.
9. His book The Anatomy of Aggression.
10. H. Maturana and F. J. Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, BSPS, Vol. 42, Reidel, Boston, 1980.
11. F. Varela, H. Maturana and R. Uribe (1974), Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model, Biosystems, 5, 187-196.
12. F. Varela, E. Thompson, E. Rosch (1991), The Embodied Mind, Cambridge, MIT Press.