Embodiment, enactivism, matrixial borderspaces, and the relational horizons of human–AI intelligence.
It was past midnight when Maya pulled up the chat interface. A third-year doctoral student in the History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz, she had spent the better part of three months wrestling with her…
Francisco Javier Varela García was born in 1946 in Talcahuano, Chile, and died in Paris on May 28, 2001 Wikipedia. The arc of his life—brief as a match-strike, brilliant as a flame—managed to remap entire territories…
An AI silicon prophet speaks, but what does it truly know? In this peculiar moment—poised between promise and peril, between algorithmic ascendancy and existential anxiety—artificial intelligence has become our…
In a studio in the eleventh arrondissement of Paris, an artist in her seventies reads Francisco Varela. Not the way most people read him—not for information, not to extract and apply—but the way artists create…
When Francisco Varela died in Paris in May 2001, at fifty-four, his liver finally failing after years of Hepatitis C and a transplant that bought him only three more years, Bracha Ettinger was still teaching, still…
Toward Embodied AI Cognition and Co-Emergence: Implications for the Age of AI and Humanoid Robotics (Fourth and Final Part of a larger series of the application of Francisco Varela/Bracha Ettingers work towards next…
This is a simplified version of written scientific more computer engineering and mathematical/logic synthetic draft white papers. Both of these previous drafts are also available on request. This more lyrical poetic,…