John Brockman Quote

Francisco Varela, an experimental and theoretical biologist, studied what he termed "emergent selves" or "virtual identities." His was an immanent view of reality, based on metaphors derived from self-organization and Buddhist-inspired epistemology rather than on those derived from engineering and information science.

John Brockman (2001) "Edge: THE EMERGENT SELF" op edge.org, June 5, 2001