This essay is inspired by the belief that Francisco Varela’s last work, found in his essays between 1997 and 2000, contains several highly significant experimental and epistemological intuitions for the future of an approach to the study of cognitive and evolutionary developmental processes that we might start by describing as “anti-computationalist”. The assumption I would like to work on is seeking inspiration in these intuitions to outline a possible “radical theory of emergence”, based on two essential remarks: 1) Developmental processes are phenomena of emergence from reticular connections that involve the integrated totality of the systems examined (internal source of order); 2) Developmental processes occur within structurally coupled systems whose co-evolutionary dynamic presents characteristics of irreductible unicity and contingency (external source of order).
The Contingent Subject. For a Radical Theory of Emergence in Developmental Processes
PIEVANI, DIETELMO
2003
Abstract
This essay is inspired by the belief that Francisco Varela’s last work, found in his essays between 1997 and 2000, contains several highly significant experimental and epistemological intuitions for the future of an approach to the study of cognitive and evolutionary developmental processes that we might start by describing as “anti-computationalist”. The assumption I would like to work on is seeking inspiration in these intuitions to outline a possible “radical theory of emergence”, based on two essential remarks: 1) Developmental processes are phenomena of emergence from reticular connections that involve the integrated totality of the systems examined (internal source of order); 2) Developmental processes occur within structurally coupled systems whose co-evolutionary dynamic presents characteristics of irreductible unicity and contingency (external source of order).
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