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“[M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given and immediate world.”

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Francisco Varela

Francisco Varela was a prominent biologist, born on September 7, 1946, and passed away on May 28, 2001. His research focused on cognitive science, bio philosophy, and systems biology, profoundly influencing the development of modern biology and cognitive science. more

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