Francisco Varela

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5 total works indexed

1. Physisorption of gases, with special reference to the evaluation of surface area and pore size distribution (IUPAC Technical Report)

   · 2015 · cited 18,833x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,392x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,355x

4. End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers

   · 2020 · cited 12,653x

5. 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

   · 2021 · cited 11,541x

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Quotes

• “If everybody would agree that their current reality is a reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then perhaps we could all agree on a meta-agreement for computing a reality that would mean survival and dignity for everyone on the planet, rather than each group being sold on a particular way of doing things.”
• “There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ‘holistic’ views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.”
• “I’m a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena”
• “I hope I have seduced the reader to consider that we have in front of us the possibility of an open-ended quest for resonant passages between human experience and cognitive science. The price however is to take first-person accounts seriously as valid domain of phenomena. And beyond that, to build a sustained tradition of phenomenological examination that is almost entirely nonexistent today in our western science and culture at large.”
• “By autopoietic organization, Maturana and Varela meant the] processes interlaced in the specific form of a network of productions of components which realizing the network that produced them constitutes it as a unity.”
• “The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1946-09-07 ) September 7, 1946, Talcahuano , Chile

Died

28 May 2001 (2001-05-28) (aged 54), Paris , France

Alma mater

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile ; University of Chile ; Harvard University

Known for

Autopoiesis Enaction Neurophenomenology

Children

Leonor Varela

Institutions

École Polytechnique ; CNRS ; University of Paris ; Mind and Life Institute

Thesis

Insect retinas; visual processing in the compound eye (1970)

Doctoral advisor

Torsten Wiesel

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