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	Francisco Varela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Varela was primarily trained as a biologist, and was fundamentally influenced by his teacher and fellow Chilean, Humberto Maturana, also a biologist with a strong philosophical orientation.
		Varela was a proponent of the embodied philosophy which argues that human cognition and consciousness can only be understood in terms of the enactive structures in which they arise, namely the body and the physical world with which the body interacts.
		Varela became a Tibetan Buddhist in the 1970s, initially studying with the meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Shambhala Buddhism, and later with Tulku Ugyen, a Nepalese master of higher tantras.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francisco_Varela (468 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Francisco Varela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Humberto Maturana (born 1928 in Santiago) is a Chilean biologist and philosopher.
		Francisco Varela (Santiago, September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001 in Paris) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher, who, together with Humberto Maturana, is most well-known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.
		Francisco Varela (September 7, 1946 - May 28, 2001) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher most well-known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Francisco-Varela (1435 words)

	Autopoiesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The canonical example of an autopoietic system, and one of the entities that motivated Varela and Maturana to define autopoiesis, is the biological cell.
		The eukaryotic cell, for example, is made of various biochemical components such as nucleic acids and proteins, and is organized into bounded structures such as the cell nucleus, various organelles, a cell membrane and cytoskeleton.
		Varela, Francisco J.; Maturana, Humberto R.; and Uribe, R. Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autopoiesis (573 words)

	Obituary of Francisco J. Varela (1946-2001)
		Francisco Varela was born September 7, 1946 in Chile.
		Francisco's years in Paris, up until the very month of his passing, were remarkably full and productive by any standard; that he suffered from Hepatitis C from the early 1990s onward, including receiving a liver transplant in 1998, makes his life and work during this time truly wonderful and inspiring.
		Francisco also firmly believed, however, that such scientific research needs to be complemented by detailed phenomenological investigations of human experience as it is lived and verbally articulated in the first person.
	psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v7/psyche-7-12-thompson.html (1706 words)

	Francisco Varela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Francisco Varela was born in Chile on 07 September 1946 and died in Paris on 28 May 2001.
		Lastly, Varela believed that the future of consciousness studies crucially depended upon using the latest brain-imaging and other experimental tools of neuroscience as well as by training scientists to observe and describe their own mental and emotional states in a disciplined way through Buddhist mindfulness techniques.
		Francisco Valera was an active and enthusiastic supporter of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of consciousness.
	members.tripod.com /~xtro1666/francisco_varela.htm (1085 words)

	EGP - portrait - Francisco J. Varela, par Evan Thompson
		Francisco’s years in Paris, up until the very month of his passing, were remarkably full and productive by any standard; that he suffered from Hepatitus C from the early 1990s onward, including receiving a liver transplant in 1998, makes his life and work during this time truly wonderful and inspiring.
		This meeting was a dream-come-true for Francisco: the best of Western brain science and Buddhist meditative practice and psychology brought together in the context of cognitive neuroscientific research on the cognitive and emotional effects of meditation evident in long-term practitioners.
		Francisco was to present his studies and findings using EEG and MEG methods at the morning session of May 22, but sadly was unable to be there because of his illness.
	www.etatsgeneraux-psychanalyse.net /portraits/FVarela.html (1730 words)

	Varela Francisco
		Varela would claim that he is adding something to the scientific discussion when he casts all these phenomena in his language, but whatever it is he adds always seems to slip away from me whenever I try to pin it down.
		Francisco was very formal, and impatient with the somewhat sloppy level of discourse I seem to be content with.
		Francisco is extraordinary in terms of the clarity of his thinking and the quality of his research, because he implements his more abstract ideas in very high-quality research work.
	members.tripod.com /enaction/id65.htm (4895 words)

	Francisco Varela has died in Paris
		Since his adolescence, Francisco Varela has had the vocation for intellectual work, mainly in the field of biological sciences.
		He dedicated his life to the studies of a ‘biology of consciousness’, known through a method called ‘magneto-encephalography’, that consists of recording the forms according to which different groups of cerebral neurons become synchronised for fractions of seconds in the moment somebody becomes conscious of something.
		The originality of his ideas and their implications in the biology of consciousness, as well as in cognitive sciences, epistemology and human sciences leave an incomplete opus to young generations of scientists internationally.
	www.oikos.org /vareladn.htm (433 words)

	Francisco Varela - Wikipedia
		Francisco Varela war 1990 einer der Hauptbegründer des Mind and Life Institute.
		Varela and J. Shear (Hg.): The View from Within: First-Person Methodologies in the Study of Consciousness, London: Imprint Academic, 1999
		Franciso J. Varelas persönliche Homepage (zum Zeitpunkt seines Todes)
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francisco_Varela (441 words)

	© PSYCHOMEDIA - JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PSYCHOANALYSIS - A conversation of Sergio Benvenuto with Francisco Varela - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Summary: In this interview Francisco Varela traces the history of the development of consciousness studies and discusses the developments in contemporary cognitive neurosciences that have allowed consciousness to become an object of scientific study.
		Francisco Varela - The study of consciousness as an object of scientific study is connected to the cognitive neurosciences, as they are called today.
		Varela - Even though the panorama is truly vast, it is not difficult to imagine the dominant hypotheses, because a somewhat reductionistic tendency still prevails among scientistsÑand I do not say this in a derogatory or pejorative sense--which consists in an attempt to bring the problem of consciousness back to a purely materialistic explanation.
	www.psychomedia.it /jep/number14/varela.htm (5268 words)

	Dialog on Leadership: Francisco Varela summary
		In the second interview in January 2000, Francisco Varela laid out the key ideas of a book he and his two co-authors were working on.
		The work of the late Francisco Varela was inspired by what he called the blind spot of cognition science: the inability to access experience, which is the core process of becoming aware.
		Francisco Varela, who passed away in 2001, left us with a hugely promising and yet unfinished body of work.
	www.dialogonleadership.org /Varela.html (921 words)

	FRANCISCO J. VARELA
		The main figure in the film is the Chilean Francisco Varela, who died in 2001 at the age of 54.
		A main focus for Varela' work was the idea of building a bridge between the discoveries of the mind in science and the discoveries of the mind through experience.
		Francisco Varela died in Paris on 28 May 2001, two weeks after an unexpectedly severe relapse following the end of his course of chemotherapy.
	www.frif.com /new2005/mon4.html (331 words)

	Francisco Varela
		He is also a proponent of the embodied philosophy which claims that human cognition and consciousness can only be understood in terms of the physical structures in which it arises, namely the body, and the environment in which the body interacts.
		Varela was the father of Chilean actress Leonor Varela, among others.
		He is also the father of actress and maxim model Leonor Varela.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/francisco_varela.html (516 words)

	Site MCX-APC & Lettre Chemin-Faisant
		Dès son adolescence, Francisco Varela a eu la vocation du travail intellectuel, principalement pour les sciences biologiques.
		Francisco Varela, neurobiologiste d'origine chilienne et directeur de recherches au CNRS, est décédé le 28 Mai 2001 à l'âge de 55 ans après avoir consacré sa vie à la compréhension du vivant et à sa relation avec l'esprit.
		Francisco Varela non seulement suivit tous ces développements, mais y participa activement, faisant preuve d'une capacité tout à fait exemplaire à évoluer dans des disciplines très variées.
	www.mcxapc.org /docs/memorial/varela.htm (2547 words)

	THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION:
		So what I am going to do today is to look at Varela’s references to his own writing in the context of the argument he made concerning the relation between temporality and affect, and then I will give you ever so briefly some examples of Stein’s writing to consider from this angle.
		For, as Varela went on to observe, the horizons are themselves "mobile": "This very moment which was present (and hence was not merely described, but lived as such) slips toward an immediately past present.
		At the beginning of this section Varela had noted that "when visual perception shifts abruptly," it is "accompanied by a (more or less distinct) emotional change," exactly how he then imagined the message "Do you really wish to erase this text?" affecting him.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/HPS/WritingScience/smeyerSLS_2001.html (1320 words)

	Autopoiesis and Enaction: The Observer Web
		The Encyclopaedia Autopoietica is a compendium of the terms and concepts used in autopoietic theory, with emphasis on the core literature of Maturana and Varela.
		Francisco Varela was instrumental in documenting and formalizing Maturana's vision of cognition and living systems.
		Varela, Maturana and Uribe (1974) laid out a six-step procedure for judging whether a composite unity is autopoietic.
	www.enolagaia.com /AT.html (1931 words)

	Francisco Varela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Francisco Varela (September 7, 1946, Santiago - May 28, 2001, Paris) was a Chile an biologist and philosopher, who, together with Humberto Maturana, is most well-known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.
		He is also a proponent of the embodied philosophy which claims that human consciousness can only be understood in terms of the physical structures in which it arises, namely the body, and the environment in which the body interacts.
		San Francisco second baseman who was 2001 NL MVP breaks thumb while washing his truck.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Francisco_Varela.html (1277 words)

	Laputan Logic - Francisco Varela
		Francisco Varela's work was ground breaking and influential in a wide range of fields including biology, pschology, management theory and non-linear dynamics.
		Cognition, according to Maturana and Varela, is the activity involved in the self-generation and self-perpetuation of living systems.
		Varela and his colleagues argue that the immune system needs to be understood as an autonomous, cognitive network which is responsible for the body's "molecular identity".
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2002/10/06-82687171.html (1449 words)

	CEO - Francisco Varela
		Esa doble condición de científico del mundo pero a la vez chileno de excepción, transforma a Francisco Varela en un ejemplo para nuestras generaciones venideras, pues les muestra un camino a seguir y les indica una senda que vale la pena transitar.
		Francisco Varela fue un científico excepcional en más de un aspecto.
		Varela exploró, a la largo de treinta años de investigación, las características de la vida, las bases biológicas del conocimiento y el lenguaje, realizó aportes a la comprensión de la epilepsia y se internó en la frontera de la neurociencia y la sicología cognitiva.
	web.ceo.cl /newtenberg/609/article-1454.html (1761 words)

	Tucson Weekly : Currents : After Prison
		Varela, 32, is among the first individuals to take part in the Prisoner Re-Entry Partnership project (PREP), which began enrolling participants in late March.
		Varela says putting on new clothes had a powerful impact on how others viewed him, and when he was on his way to a job interview in his new clothes, the bus driver greeted him by saying, "Good morning, sir." He says the same driver ignored him just the day before.
		Varela now has some very specific goals: to keep his job, stay out of prison, spend time with his son and save enough money to get his own place.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:82342 (1323 words)

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		Hugues Bersini From Autopoiesis to NeuroPhenomenology A Tribute to Francisco Varela June 18-20, 2004 (Amphith=E9=E2tre Richelieu, University Paris-Sorbonne) Introduction: Over the past half century complexity theory has a seminal influence on the entire framework of modern science, affecting all its domains from physics and biology to cognitive science and the human and social sciences.
		Francisco Varela's contribution to the understanding of these ideas was devoted to conjugating non-linear dynamics with first person accounts, constituting the neurophenomenology program which is a component of the general program of naturalizing phenomenology.
		Francisco Varela's oeuvre ramifies into an unusually large number of domains essential to contemporary science.
	www.law.duke.edu /sls/archive/digest%202004-02-13%20%23001.txt (681 words)

	FRANCISCO J. VARELA: 1946-2001
		Francisco J. Varela was born in Chile on September 7, 1946.
		Francisco's best known contribution to autopoietic theory was his collaboration with Humberto Maturana from the late 1960's into the early 1970's.
		Varela, F. (2000),Upwards and downwards causation in the brain: Case studies on the emergence and efficacy of consciousness, In: K.Yasue and M.Jibu (eds.), Towards a Science of Consciousness Tokyo '99, Benjamin Publishers, Amsterdam, 2000.
	www.enolagaia.com /Varela.html (8134 words)

	The Third Culture - Chapter 12
		Stuart Kauffman: Francisco Varela is amazingly inventive, freewheeling, and creative.
		Second, Francisco is a good theoretical biologist, and theory in biology is in low repute.
		In this regard, Francisco is a language Wunderkind.
	www.edge.org /documents/ThirdCulture/t-Ch.12.html (4800 words)

	Francisco Varela
		Francisco Varela, neurobiologo ed epistemologo cileno, ultimamente dirigeva a Parigi il gruppo di ricerca "Dinamiche dei sistemi neuronali" del laboratorio di neuroscienze e Brain Imaging del Cnrs (National Institute for Scientific Research) presso l'ospedale universitario della Salpêtrière e insegnava scienze cognitive ed epistemologia all'École Polytechnique.
		I contributi che Francisco Varela ha portato nei campi delle neuroscienze, della biologia teorica, dell'immunologia, della cibernetica, dell'intelligenza artificiale, della teoria dei sistemi complessi e dell'epistemologia hanno avuto e hanno tuttora una portata fondamentale per lo sviluppo e la conoscenza di queste discipline.
		Francisco Varela ha in ogni momento accompagnato l'attività di ricerca scientifica con una corrispondente filosofica, di matrice fenomenologica, nonostante gli anni trascorsi negli Stati Uniti in un ambiente fondamentalmente analitico.
	erewhon.ticonuno.it /riv/scienza/varela/varela.htm (940 words)

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