Attempts to 'naturalize'phenomenology challenge both traditional phenomenology and
traditional approaches to cognitive science. They challenge Edmund Husserl's rejection of …

Abstract Defending Robert Rosen's claim that in every confrontation between physics and
biology it is physics that has always had to give ground, it is shown that many of the most …

The phenomenon of evolutionary complexification corresponds to the generation of new
coding systems (defined as а codepoiesis by Marcello Barbieri). The whole process of …

The code paradigm in biological and social sciences arises to Aristotle. For conscious
activity, Aristotle introduced the notion of reflexive self-awareness in sense perception. This …

Abstract Mathematics is a powerful tool to express the computable part of the reality of the
physical world. For living systems, mathematical relations emerge internally as an …

One of the main challenges of the social sciences is to explain metasystem transitions from
biological to social systems in the process of evolution. These transitions correspond to the …

Rosen classified sciences into two categories: formalizable and unformalizable. Whereas
formalizable sciences expressed in terms of mathematical theories were highly valued by …

The problem of knowledge acquisition in animals is considered from the point of view of
cybernetics. We show that all types of animal behavior can be consistently explained on the …

The study addressed in this' book'puts forward a project that is twofold. Firstly, it discusses
the conceptual basis within which it would be possible for the construction of …

In this first part of a series of articles we discuss the torsion geometry of biology, physics,
cognition and perception. We discuss the relations with the non-linear morphomechanics of …