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Iain Hamilton Grant

15 Aug 2025 - 15 Aug 2025
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    • via Hugo in response to Gyrus Darwin query
    • SELF-ORGANIZATION: THE IDEA IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY SCIENCE
      • Maturana and Varela provide, in the theory of autopoiesis and cognition, an excellent example of the power of idealism in science. e theorization of the primacy of organization and relation as denitive of a self-organizing totality is very similar to that of Hegelian idealism.
      • "metaphysical idealism" just seems like nonsense to me. I suppose that's a bias. Biology, chemistry, or mathematics have "idealist characteristics".
      • What Maturana and Varela refer to as an “organization” is an Idea in the Platonic sense.
      • this seems to be their motive in introducing the, arguably misplaced and misleading, language of mechanism into their, otherwise perfectly organic, philosophy.
      • So weird, this guy is pulling in the opposite direction of everything I know.