Varela, Francisco J. et al., The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

Varela, Francisco J. et al. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1991.

On Buddhism and questions of the self and world in cognitive society. N. Katherine Hayles finds in this book "the unstatated but pervasive implication that robots designed to show emergent behavior through their interactions with the environment . . . could attain awareness similar to that of a human being" (rev. American Book Review 14.1 [April-May 1992]: 13).