Varela Archives - Scybernethics

Reframing the Mind-Body Problem: A Meta-Dualist Approach

soto² — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:00:45 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> “There is really not a mind-body problem. There is a mind-mind problem.” – Varela, “God & Computers: Minds, Machines, and Metaphysics“, MIT A.I. Lab 1997. Introduction The meta-dualist conceptions of both Scybernethics and Varela’s cybernetic dialectic have significant consequences for how the mind-body problem is understood, ultimately reframing it as a “mind-mind” problem centered …

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Overcoming Dualism (Meta-Dualism): Comparing Scybernethics and Varela’s Cybernetic Dialectic

soto² — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 09:20:32 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction Scybernethics and Varela’s “cybernetic dialectic” (Bitbol 2021) both address conceptual dualities, but they do so with different emphases and methodologies. Scybernethics, developed by Christophe Rigon, is an approach that emphasizes a practical, embodied, and self-transformative method of inquiry, while Varela’s cybernetic dialectic, particularly as expressed in “Not one, not two,” (Varela 1976) is …

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Whence perceptual meaning? A cartography of current ideas – Varela F. J. (1989)

Christophe Rigon — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 10:23:55 +0000

Varela F. J. (1991) Whence perceptual meaning? A cartography of current ideas. In: Varela F. J. & Dupuy J. P. (eds.) Understanding origins: Contemporary ideas on the origin of life, mind and society. Kluwer, Boston: 235–263. Available at https://cepa.info/2074 (free inscription, excellent knowledge base about enaction and alternative approaches to cognition). Also published as a …

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