Tree of Knowledge

Knowing how we know is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications for they assert the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience as well as for students scholars and scientists and abundantly illustrated with examples from biology linguistics and new social and cultural phenomena this revised edition includes a new afterword by Dr. Varela in which he discusses the effect the book has had in the years since its first publication.