My intent in this essay is to reflect on the history of some biological notions such as autopoiesis, structural coupling, and cognition, that I have developed since the early 1960's as a result of my work on visual perception and the organization of the living. No doubt I shall repeat ...

I remember my first clinical supervisor, many years ago, repeating over and over again, "Stay with the feelings." Later, when I took training in family therapy, another supervisor kept saying, "Stay away tfom the feelings." Today, I tell trainees, "Dont ignore the feelings."

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Předmětem disertační práce je dílo anglo-amerického antropologa a kybernetika Gregory Batesona, které je v souladu s dánským biologem Jesperem Hoffmeyerem nahlíţeno jako příklad bioantropologického přístupu. Ten spočívá v přesvědčení, ţe mysl či duše představuje jeden z konkrétních projevů přírodního dění, a ţe toto dění samo má duševní charakter.

Introduced in 1970, bioethics is now more and more commonly used since it applies to a variety of concepts belonging to traditional Western thought. Just like other dualisms that are typical of traditional Western thought (e.g., mind/body, subject/object, philosophy/science), bioethics is developing in areas that are mostly isolated from each ...

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When Henry Markram walks into the air-conditioned computer facilities in the basement of the École Polytechnique Fédérale’s Brain Mind Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland, he doesn’t see the black monolithic cabinets, jam-packed with seemingly endless layers of circuit boards and microprocessors. What Markram sees are neurons, synapses and cortical columns that ...

To consider the implications of the operation of the nervous sys- tem – and of the constitution of cultures as closed networks of languaging and emotioning – for how we understand and generate so-called “virtual realities.”

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I am not a linguist, I am a biologist. Therefore, I shall speak about language as a biologist, and address myself to two basic biological questions, namely: 1. What processes must take place in an organism for it to establish a linguistic domain with another organism? 2. What processes take ...

The diverse papers which make up this book are variations on a theme which is based in biological science - yet none of the contributors is really a biologist. Our metaphor for describing what we are doing here is that we have gathered together in a room because that particular ...

I am attempting a preliminary interpretation of a small and, as I believe, unusual chapter of the history of science from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, one that has received little attention up to now. And I am equally motivated by the fact that the BCL has very seldom ...

Tento článek se snaží zkráceně představit zen-buddhismus z pohledu psychoterapie a nalézt odezvy a ekvivalenty zen-buddhistického myšlení především v západních terapeutických systémech. Dále se pokouší popsat psychoterapeutický přístup, nazývaný ‚zen terapie‘, najít podobnosti i rozdíly tohoto směru s některými známými ‚západními‘ školami a popsat zen-terapii z hlediska obecných procesů ...