[thechat] maturana

[javier velasco]

Joe Crawford wrote:

> I don't know the work of Maturana. I'll google.
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Maturana+scientific+method

here's a good start
http://www.informatik.umu.se/~rwhit/MatMpo&Let(1995).html#III.9

Brain, Language and the Origin of Human Mental Functions

Humberto Maturana, Jorge Mpodozis and Juan Carlos Letelier

Abstract

We propose that to understand the biological and neurophysiological
processes that give rise to human mental phenomena it is necessary to
consider them as behavioral relational phenomena. In particular, we
propose that: a) these phenomena take place in the relational manner of
living that human language constitutes, and b) that they arise as
recursive operations in such behavioral domain. Accordingly, we maintain
that these phenomena do not take place in the brain, nor are they the
result of a unique operation of a human brain, but arise with the
participation of the brain as it generates the behavioral relational
dynamics that constitutes language.