----- Original Message ----- From: "Cian O'Connor" <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 6:42 AM Subject: Re: Marxism is a science
> Do you have any good references for this stuff, it
> sounds fascinating.
>
============= Texts:
"The Principles of Biological Autonomy" Francisco Varela
"Autpoiesis and Cognition" Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela
"The Laws of Form" G. Spencer Brown
"Steps to an Ecology of Mind" Gregory Bateson"
"Self Reference and Modal Logic" C. Smorynski
"Process & Reality" Alfred North Whitehead [esp. the chapters on 'The Extensive Continuum', 'The Order of Nature' and 'Organisms & Environment'--The EC anticipates G Spencer Brown's work and the whole text could be regarded as a Metabiology akin to Aristotle's Metaphysics as Whitehead was one of the first 20th century philosophers to take evolutionary biology very seriously as he lived next door to William Bateson, the guy who coined the term genetics and was also good friends with JBS Haldane]
Any essays by Heinz von Forster
Links:
< http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/gsb.html > [GSB]
Scott gave you links for FV.
Have fun,
Ian