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Autopoiesis and Lifelines: The importance of origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Evan Thompson  and
Francisco J. Varela
Evan Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and Centre for Vision Research, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 [email protected] www.yorku.ca/research/vision/evant.htm
Francisco J. Varela
Affiliation:
LENA – Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cérébrale, Hôpital de la Salpètriere, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, [email protected] www.ccr.jussieu.fr/varela/welcome.html
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Abstract

Lifelines provides a useful corrective to “ultra-Darwinism” but it is marred by its failure to cite its scientific predecessors. Rose's argument could have been strengthened by taking greater account of the theory of autopoiesis in biology and of enactive cognitive science.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 909 - 910
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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