Biology of Cognition

The question is not whether Maturana was right. The question is whether we have yet understood what being right would mean in a framework where the observer is not outside the observed.

See also

• Sense-making — the active attribution of significance by living systems
• Sensorimotor contingency — the embodied skill theory of perception
• Cognitive domain — the closed world of interactions enacted by a structurally determined system
• Structural coupling — mutual perturbation without information transfer
• Autopoiesis — the formal characterization of self-producing systems
• Structural determinism — the principle that systems determine their own responses
• Consensual domain — coordinated action as the basis of intersubjectivity
• Languaging — the consensual coordination of consensual coordinations