IVIV Re: Back to the past....riffing on THE PRESERVED

[Ian Livingston]

Phil. in the Flesh is one of those books I refer back to often, I am
not familiar with the Varela title, but I will check it out. Varela's
work has been quite interesting at times. The notion of autopoesis is
fascinating. Still, I can't help my inclination to recoil a bit from
the all-too-popular attempts to reconcile Buddhism with everything.
Varela is a very bright individual, I'll have to see what he has to
say.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:18 AM, dougmillison at comcast.net wrote:
> Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western
> Thought
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Yes, and from a few years earlier, Varela's
> Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
> is a rigorous dialogue between cognitive science
> and the Buddhist mindfulness meditation tradition.
>
> Epigraph:
>
> Those who believe in substantiality are like cows;
> those who believe in emptiness are worse.
>
>                   Saraha (ca. ninth century CE)
>                   http://saraha.rediffblogs.com/
>
>



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