eprintid: 20421
rev_number: 7
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datestamp: 2016-03-14 14:58:31
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type: article
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creators_name: Álvarez-Vázquez, Javier Y.
title: Animated Machines, Organic Souls:
Maturana and Aristotle on the Nature of Life
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subjects: 100
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divisions: 70100
keywords: autopoiesis, soul, system theory, organism, cognitive philosophy, enarrativity, theoretical biology
cterms_swd: autopoiesis
cterms_swd: soul
cterms_swd: system theory
cterms_swd: organism
cterms_swd: cognitive philosophy
cterms_swd: enarrativity
cterms_swd: theoretical biology
abstract: The emergence of mind is a central issue in cognitive philosophy. The main working assumption of the present paper is that several important insights in answering this question might be provided by the nature of life itself. It is in this line of thinking that this paper compares two major philosophical conceptualizations of the living in the history of theoretical biology, namely those of Maturana and Aristotle. The present paper shows how both thinkers describe the most fundamental properties of the living as autonomous sustenance. The paper also shows how these theoretical insights might have a consequence upon our understanding of a specific constructiveness of human cognition, here referred to as enarrativity, if this can be considered in a structural as well as evolutionary connection with the structure of life as such. The paper finally suggests that the structural connection made here can be traced from the fundamental organization of self-preservation to survival behaviors to constructive orientation and action.
date: 2016-02
publisher: Novelty Journals
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00020421
ppn_swb: 1656045079
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-204215
language: eng
bibsort: ALVAREZVAZANIMATEDMA201602
full_text_status: public
publication: International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences
volume: 3
number: 1
place_of_pub: Lucknow, U.P., India
pagerange: 67-78
issn: 2394-9694
edition: aktualisierte Version
citation:   Álvarez-Vázquez, Javier Y.  (2016) Animated Machines, Organic Souls: Maturana and Aristotle on the Nature of Life.  International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences, 3 (1).  pp. 67-78.  ISSN 2394-9694     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20421/1/Animated%20Machines.pdf