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Francisco Varela

"There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment."

Source : "From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being" by D. Rudrauf, Biol Res 36: 27-65, 2003.

Francisco Varela

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“Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.”
“Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.”
“There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.”
“I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.”
“The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brotherâ€™s cousinâ€™s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesnâ€™t matter that she didnâ€™t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.”
“I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
“Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.”
“I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.”

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