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Dan Dennett on dangerous memes. Talks. Fritjof Capra - Home. Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

Tim Berners-Lee

He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989,[2] and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.[3][4][5][6][7] Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).[8] He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI),[9] and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.[10][11] Early life Career Current work Awards and honours.

Francisco Varela. Francisco Javier Varela García (September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism.

Francisco Varela

Life and career[edit] Varela was born in 1946 in Santiago in Chile, the son of Corina María Elena García Tapia and Raúl Andrés Varela Rodríguez.[1] After completing secondary school at the Liceo Aleman del Verbo Divino in Santiago (1951–1963), like his mentor Humberto Maturana, Varela temporarily studied medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and graduated with a degree in biology from the University of Chile. He later obtained a Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University. His thesis, defended in 1970 and supervised by Torsten Wiesel, was titled Insect Retinas: Information processing in the compound eye.

In 1987, Varela, along with R. Humberto Maturana e o espaço relacional da construção do conhecimento. Humberto Maturana e o espaço relacional da construção do conhecimento Adriano J.

Humberto Maturana e o espaço relacional da construção do conhecimento

H. Vieira Introdução Muitas são as definições que pretendem explicar o que seja o conhecimento. Maturana e sua trajetória Em seus primeiros estudos de Medicina, no Chile e depois na Inglaterra, Maturana foi mapeando uma compreensão dos seres vivos como “entes dinâmicos autônomos em contínua transformação em coerência com suas circunstâncias de vida”.[1] A busca aprofundada desse desejo de compreender melhor a dinâmica do ser vivo levou-o a estudar Biologia em 1956, quando inicia seu doutorado em Harvard.

Na pesquisa do sistema nervoso foi formulando sua idéia de ser vivo como sistemas de organização circular nos quais o que se conserva é a circularidade. Viver e conhecer são mecanismos vitais. Os estudos de Maturana explicitam o sinônimo entre conhecer e viver. Nessa relação criativa, meio-sistema, é que emerge o social. Cooperar ou competir? A educação para Maturana A educação sempre é para que. Autopoiesis. 3D representation of a living cell during the process of mitosis, example of an autopoietic system.

Autopoiesis

The original definition can be found in Autopoiesis and Cognition: the Realization of the Living (1st edition 1973, 2nd 1980): Page 78: - An autopoietic machine is a machine organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production (transformation and destruction) of components which: (i) through their interactions and transformations continuously regenerate and realize the network of processes (relations) that produced them; and (ii) constitute it (the machine) as a concrete unity in space in which they (the components) exist by specifying the topological domain of its realization as such a network. [1] Page 89:- [...] the space defined by an autopoietic system is self-contained and cannot be described by using dimensions that define another space.

Meaning[edit] Criticism[edit] See also[edit] Notes and references[edit] Further reading[edit] External links[edit] Sir Ken Robinson.