Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love
Humberto M. Romesin; Gerda Verden-Zoller; Pille Bunnell [Editor]
Language: English
Published by Imprint Academic, 2009
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- Title
- Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love
- Author
- Humberto M. Romesin; Gerda Verden-Zoller; Pille Bunnell [Editor]
- Publisher
- Imprint Academic
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1845400887
- ISBN 13
- 9781845400880
- Item weight
- 37 ounces
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- 5x0x8
The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors' basic question is: 'How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical concerns, and at the same time deny all that through the rational justification of aggression?’ The authors answer this basic question indirectly by providing a look into the fundaments of our biological constitution, concentrating on what they term emotioning, that is the flow of emotions in daily life that guides the flow of the systemic conservation of a manner of living. Maturana and Verden-Zoller claim that the fundamental emotion that gave rise to humans as sapient languaging beings was love, and that this remains our fundament even when other emotions become socially prevalent.
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About the Author
Humberto Maturana is renowned for developing the concept of autopoesis and for his foundational experiments on visual perception. He was founder-director of the Laboratory for Experimental Epistemology and the Biology of Cognition at the University of Chile in Santiago. He is also co-founder of the Instituto Matriztico in Santiago, Chile.
Pille has a background in ecology and ethology. After finishing her doctorate studies in Berkeley half century ago, she began her professional life as a research associate at the University of British Columbia, followed by nearly two decades as an international environmental consultant. After an early retirement to accommodate care of a family elder, Pille became engaged with complex systems through the American Society for Cybernetics, where she has served as President and is currently on the board. She spent a further couple of decades teaching systems methods and systems thinking, mostly at Royal Roads University, before formally retiring.
Pille is particularly interested in the implications of how we think and act, especially how the assumptions we make and the beliefs we hold about 'reality' change what is possible. As part of this she is exploring how our reflections alter our perceptions and our relationships; with ourselves, with each other and with the world around us.
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