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Francisco Varela's ideas on body and mind resurface online
Original: Varela sobre la inseparabilidad de cuerpo y mente (o, de otro modo, porque no podemos pensar la mente como un fenómeno e
A discussion of Chilean neuroscientist Francisco Varela's argument that mind and body are inseparable is circulating among Spanish-speaking science readers. The idea, central to his work on enaction and embodied cognition, holds that the mind cannot be understood as a phenomenon split off from the body from which it emerges. Readers are sharing and debating the concept across psychology and neuroscience circles.
Why now: Interest in embodied cognition and Varela's philosophy of mind continues to circulate in science discussion communities.
Evidence
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