Quotes from Francisco J. Varela

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.

The result, in this world view, is that real freedom comes not from the decisions of an ego-self's "will" but from action without any Self whatsoever

L'intelligence ne se définit plus comme une faculté de résoudre un problème, mais comme celle de pénétrer un monde partagé.