Chilean biologist and philosopher who developed autopoiesis (with Maturana) and enactivism — the view that cognition is not representational but enacted through embodied action.
Autopoiesis: living systems are self-producing networks that continuously generate their own components. The Embodied Mind (with Thompson and Rosch): enactivism — mind is not a computer running programs but an embodied agent enacting a world through sensorimotor coupling. Neurophenomenology: Husserlian phenomenology and neuroscience must be integrated methodologically.
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