“Organisms do not passively receive information from their environments, which they then translate into internal representations. Natural cognitive systems... participate in the generation of meaning... engaging in transformational and not merely informational interactions: they enact a world.”

“Organisms do not passively receive information from their environments, which they then translate into internal representations. Natural cognitive systems... participate in the generation of meaning... engaging in transformational and not merely informational interactions: they enact a world.”

— Francisco J. Varela