From Being to Doing
The Origins of the Biology of Cognition
Humberto R Maturana ; Bernhard Pörksen
- 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.
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