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258Life and mind: From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology. A tribute to francisco VarelaPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3 (4): 381-398. 2004.This talk, delivered at De l''autopoièse à la neurophénoménologie: un hommage à Francisco Varela; from autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: a tribute to Francisco Varela, June 18–20, at the Sorbonne in Paris, explicates several links between Varela''s neurophenomenology and his biological concept of autopoiesis
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191Colour vision, evolution, and perceptual contentSynthese 104 (1): 1-32. 1995.b>. Computational models of colour vision assume that the biological function of colour vision is to detect surface reflectance. Some philosophers invoke these models as a basis for 'externalism' about perceptual content (content is distal) and 'objectivism' about colour (colour is surface reflectance). In an earlier article (Thompson et al. 1992), I criticized the 'computational objectivist' position on the basis of comparative colour vision: There are fundmental differences among the colour vi…Read more
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183Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscienceTrends in Cognitive Sciences 15 (3): 104-112. 2011.
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109Autopoiesis and lifelines: The importance of originsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (5): 909-910. 1999.Lifelines provides a useful corrective to “ultra-Darwinism” but it is marred by its failure to cite its scientific predecessors. Rose's argument could have been strengthened by taking greater account of the theory of autopoiesis in biology and of enactive cognitive science.
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