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  1. Francisco Javier Varela García (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, cybernetician, and neuroscientist who, together with his mentor Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and ...

  2. Francisco J. Varela (1946–2001) was Director of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology, CREA, at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and Cofounder of the Mind and Life Institute.

  3. Apr 12, 2022 · Francisco Varela (1946–2001) was a Chilean polymath whose work spanned from biology, immunology and neuroscience to experimental psychology, philosophy of mind and phenomenology; he addressed these matters with scientific rigour while holding great regard for the philosophical concerns about human experience.

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  5. Jun 9, 2021 · Gábor Karsai, Managing Director, Mind & Life Europe welcomed him to a ‘Dialogue for a Better World - Remembering Francisco Varela’, the first event in a series called 'Francisco & Friends: an Embodiment of Relationship'. The series commemorates Varela, one of the key founders of Mind & Life, who passed away just over twenty years ago.

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  6. FRANCISCO VARELA was a biologist; director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and professor of cognitive science and epistemology at the École Polytechnique, in Paris; author of Principles of Biological Autonomy ; coauthor with Humberto D. Maturana of Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living and The Tre...

  7. Francisco Javier Varela García (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, cybernetician, and neuroscientist who, together with his mentor Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and ...

  8. The Tree of Knowledge, by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, is a landmark attempt to integrate biology, cognition, and epistemology into a single science, reversing the dualism of fact and value, and of observer and observed, that has haunted the West since the seventeenth century.

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