"Every living system is characterized by its network of relationships, not its components. Take away the web, and you don't have simplified life — you have no life at all. Cognition is coordination. The web is the mind."
Physicist who crossed disciplines to argue that the mechanistic worldview of Western science fails to describe life, mind, or society. His Santiago Theory — developed with Humberto Maturana — defines cognition as the process of living, not a function occurring inside brains. Systems coordinate; coordination is intelligence.