For more than 40 years the work and ideas of Humberto Maturana has permeated the academic world and applied disciplines. What began as an answer to the question “What is life?” has become an encompassing explanatory network that includes living, cognition, languaging, and emotioning. In October 2010 we decided to ...

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A presentation that draws connections across the work of Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, and Humberto Maturana.

| The Past-Future of Cybernetics

Maturana is a biologist. He makes it very clear that he speaks and writes only as a biologist. Others may apply his work to other spheres; however he himself does not. This paper is based on notes taken during a three day lecture given by Humberto Maturana in St Kilda, ...

Pokud nás někdo pozval, abychom opustili tenhle svět jistoty, svět nepopiratelného chápání, a abychom se ještě postavili proti pokušení jistoty, pak to byl Humberto Maturana, biolog, myslitel, muž s neobyčejným zájmem od dětství, začal od emocí, dostal se k vědeckému myšlení a od vědeckého myšlení ho cesta vedla zpět k ...

What are the consequences of this work? Fundamentally, it shows that the eye speaks to the brain in a language already highly organized and interpreted, instead of transmitting some more or less accurate copy of the distribution of light on the receptors. As a crude analogy, suppose we have a ...

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Jaké jsou důsledky této práce? Podstatné je, že ukazuje, že oko mluví do mozku v jazyce již velmi organizovaně a interpretovaně, místo přenášení více či méně přesných kopii rozložení světla na receptory, jako část analogie, předpokládejme, že má člověk pozorovat mraky a vykazovat je jako meteorologická stanice. Pokud se používá ...

Je možné být skutečně objektivní? Je to možné alespoň v sociální, politické, ekonomické analýze? Jestliže ne, znamená to, že zůstáváme na pospas nejkrajnějšímu relativismu? Je toto hlavní příčina našich obtíží při zlepšování světa?

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.”

| The Biological Foundations of Virtual Realities and Their Implications for Human Existence

My 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 ...

| Ontology of Observing

The answers to these two questions would have been obvious years ago: Human beings, of course, machines are instruments of human design! But now days when we speak so much of progress, science and technology as if progress, science and technology were in themselves values to be venerated, there are ...