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000001653 100__ $$0AUTHOR|(SYS)maturanahumberto$$aMaturana, Humberto
000001653 245__ $$aOntology of Observing
000001653 520__ $$aMy purpose in this essay is to explain cognition as a biological phenomenon, and to show, in the process, how language arises and gives origin to self consciousness, revealing the ontological foundations of the physical domain of existence as a limiting cognitive domain. In order to do this I shall start from two unavoidable experiential conditions that are at the same time my problems and my explanatory instruments, namely: a), that cognition, as is apparent in the fact that any alteration of the biology of our nervous system alters our cognitive capacities, is a biological phenomenon that must be explained as such; and b), that we, as is apparent in this very same essay, exist as human beings in laguage using language for our explanations. These two experiential conditions are my starting point because I must be in them in any explanatory attempt; they are my problems because I choose to explain them, and they are my unavoidable instruments because I must use cognition and language in order to explain cognition and language.
000001653 65017 $$astudijní materiály/autorské práce
000001653 773__ $$pTexts in Cybernetics, American Society For Cibernetics Conference, Felton, CA. 18-23 October, 1988$$y1998
000001653 909C4 $$dhttp://www.inteco.cl/biology/ontology/ooo-c1.htm$$pOntology of Observing
000001653 980__ $$aARTICLE