Biology and Cognition
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Epistemology, evolution, knowledge.Abstract
The purpose of this article is to present Maturana and Varela's theory of cognition biology on the process of knowledge generation in living systems. The genesis of these scientists’ epistemology is that knowledge is an endless construction between the living being and its recurrent interactions with the world, in a feedback process which is established by a circular dynamics. This way one hopes to understand how humans learn. This article has been divided into five parts. In the first one, we present the change to systemic and complex thinking; the second part brings some hypotheses on how the mind arose; in the third, we present some conceptual comparisons between Maturana and Varela and Darwin; in the fourth, we present the cognitive relevance of the organization of autonomous living beings; in the fifth, the construction of social knowledge; and finally, in the sixth part, some conclusions about the biology of cognition are elaborated.
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