Francisco Javier Varela García ( September 7, 1946 – May 28, 2001 ) was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism.

The design of the current Chilean flag is commonly attributed to Bernardo O ' Higgins's Minister of War, José Ignacio Zenteno, having been designed by the Spanish soldier Antonio Arcos, although historians argue that is was Gregorio de Andía y Varela who drew it.

The Mariano Ramos Ancestral House is the home of the late Don Mariano V. Ramos, the son of Agaton Ramos and Dolores Varela, was the first appointed Presidente Municipal of Bacolod City, Philippines.

An example is the assertion by Maturana and Varela that " what we do not see does not exist " or that reality is an invention of observers.

The commune is represented in the Senate by Victor Pérez Varela ( UDI ) and Mariano Ruiz-Esquide Jara ( PDC ) as part of the 13th senatorial constituency ( Biobío-Coast ).

Leonor Varela Palma ( born December 29, 1972 ) is a Chilean actress and model.

Varela is expecting her first child with producer Lucas Akoskin in late 2012.

San Fernando del Valle is served by Coronel Felipe Varela International Airport ) ( CTC / SANC ), with flights to IRJ, TUC and AEP.

The Varela Project ( Proyecto Varela in Spanish ) is a project that was started in 1998 by Oswaldo Payá of the Christian Liberation Movement ( CLM ) and named after Felix Varela, a Cuban religious leader.

Also, some of the Varela Project leaders were accused by the Cuban government of accepting foreign political support from James Cason of the United States State Department for political purposes, which is against the law in Cuba and many other countries, including the United States.

The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Felipe Pérez Roque stated on April 9, 2003, that " The Varela Project is part of a strategy of subversion against Cuba that has been conceived, financed, and directed from abroad with the active participation of the U. S. Interests Section in Havana.

Florencio Varela is a partido located in the south of Gran Buenos Aires urban area in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Its capital is Florencio Varela.

The partido is named in honour of Argentine writer and journalist Florencio Varela ( 23 February 1807-20 March 1848 ).

The commune is represented in the Senate by Victor Pérez Varela ( UDI ) and Mariano Ruiz-Esquide Jara ( PDC ) as part of the 13th senatorial constituency ( Biobío-Coast ).

On the other side of the spectrum, Carlos Varela is famous in Cuba for his open criticism of some aspects of Castro's revolution.

The present Mayor is Armando Mendonça Varela, elected by the Social Democratic Party.

Varela is a Spanish and Portuguese surname of Galician origin.

Carlos Varela ( born April 11, 1963 ) is a singer-songwriter of nueva trova from Havana, Cuba.

Some people consider it to be a kind of prophecy, as Varela lived in exile for most of his life.

Theorists who both complement and contrast Hassan include Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Bruno Latour, N. Katherine Hayles, Peter Sloterdijk, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela and Douglas Kellner.

Others who have written about the embodied mind include philosopher Andy Clark ( See his Being There ), philosopher and neurobiologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela and his student Evan Thompson ( See Varela, Thompson & Rosch's " The Embodied Mind "), roboticists such as Rodney Brooks, Rolf Pfeifer and Tom Ziemke, the physicist David Bohm ( see his Thought As A System ), Ray Gibbs ( see his " Embodiment and Cognitive Science "), John Grinder and Richard Bandler in their neuro-linguistic programming, and Julian Jaynes.

He had a number of notable students, among whom were Pema Chödrön, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Peter Lieberson, José Argüelles, David Nichtern, Ken Wilber, David Deida, Francisco Varela, and Joni Mitchell who portrayed Trungpa in the song " Refuge of the Roads " on her 1976 album Hejira.

The year after, he starred opposite Timothy Dalton, Bruce Payne, Sean Pertwee and Leonor Varela ( who became his fiance after shooting ended ) in a TV-movie about Cleopatra.

At the internal level, in July 2008 was first presented two lists to lead the party: one headed by Juan Antonio Coloma and Victor Perez Varela ( who had the backing of the historical leaders of the party ) and one by Jose Antonio Kast and Rodrigo Alvarez ( supported mainly by the younger members ).

Lavitola was introduced by Berlusconi to the delegation presided by Martinelli and his vice-president Juan Carlos Varela as the person who would represent him in negotiating the future agreement between Panama and Italy.

The Varela Project relies on Article # 88 ( g ) of the Cuban Constitution Text of 1976, which allows citizens to propose laws if 10, 000 persons who are registered to vote support the proposal with their names, national identification numbers, addresses, and signatures.

In May and June, Oswaldo Paya reported State Security agents visited and pressured more than 50 Varela Project signatories to retract their signatures and denounce the Varela Project activists who had collected their signatures.

In March 2003, the Cuban government arrested approximately 75 dissenters, who were tried and convicted of accepting funds from foreign sources for political purposes, and approximately one half of these arrested persons were associated with the Varela Project movement.

In May and June, Oswaldo Paya reported State Security agents visited and pressured more than 50 Varela Project signatories to retract their signatures and denounce the Varela Project activists who had collected their signatures.

The original city was founded under the name Altamira de Caceres on June 30, 1577 by Captain Juan Andres Varela fulfilling orders of the governor of La Grita Francisco de Cáceres, who had founded this Andean city and established it governorate in 1576.

Named in honor of Félix Varela, a Catholic priest who had participated in Cuba's independence struggle with Spain, the Project took advantage of a clause in the Cuban Constitution requiring a national referendum to be held if 11, 000 signatures are gathered.

These include Eliseu, Nani, Manuel Fernandes, Rolando, Nélson Marcos, and Silvestre Varela, who all represent Portugal, as well as Mickaël Tavares, Jacques and Ricardo Faty ( Senegal ), Patrick Vieira ( France ), Gelson Fernandes ( Switzerland ), Henrik Larsson ( Sweden ), David Mendes da Silva ( Netherlands ) and Rui ( Equatorial Guinea ), among other examples.

In the Philippines, this ideal spread in the colony through the writings of criollo writers as Luis Rodríguez Varela who called himself " Conde Filipino " ( Earl of the Philippines ).

Probably the prominent thinkers who have skillfully combined phenomenological analysis with neuroscientific research are Francisco Varela and Walter Freeman.

A Criollo and an ilustrado who went to school in France, Varela published a series of books advocating social change in the Philippines, inspired by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

After a failed hit on Varela left him in the hospital with multiple gunshots, Varela declared war on Diego Montoya who he held responsible for the attack.

Leonor Varela plays the mysterious Nada, who prefers to use double entendres and clichés rather than speaking conversationally.

In 2002 supporters of a movement known as the Varela Project submitted a citizen proposal of law with 11, 000 signatures calling for a national referendum on political and economic reforms.

Varela became a Tibetan Buddhist in the 1970s, initially studying, together with Keun-Tshen Goba, with the meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Vajradhatu and Shambhala Training, and later with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a Nepalese meditation master of higher tantras.

In 1987, Varela, along with R. Adam Engle, founded the Mind and Life Institute, initially to sponsor a series of dialogues between scientists and His Holiness The Dalai Lama about the relationship between modern science and Buddhism.

Varela was primarily trained as a biologist, and was fundamentally influenced by his teacher and fellow Chilean, Humberto Maturana, also a biologist with a strong philosophical orientation.

Varela was a proponent of the embodied philosophy which argues that human cognition and consciousness can only be understood in terms of the enactive structures in which they arise, namely the body ( understood both as a biological system and as personally, phenomenologically experienced ) and the physical world with which the body interacts.

He knew well and was in conversation with John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others.

Severino Varela, Uruguayan champion with Peñarol in 1938.

However, in April 2007, an anteater at the Florencio Varela Zoo near Buenos Aires mauled zookeeper Melisa Casco, slashing her abdomen and legs with its front claws.

* Interview with Kyle Gann by Daniel Varela

The Cuban National Assembly's Constitution and Legal Affairs Committee suspended consideration of the Varela Project citizens ' initiative and responded with its own counter initiative, providing that the Cuban Constitution be amended to make permanent the socialist nature of the Cuban state.

Cuba maintains that the head of the US Special Interests section in Havana, James Cason has given money, gifts and support to dissidents in Cuba, associated with the Varela Project, and that: " For these reasons, a few dozen persons directly linked to the conspiratorial activities headed by James Cason have been arrested by the relevant authorities and will be brought to trial.

Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, a Varela Project leader and one of the 75 activists arrested, reported serving 45 days in a punishment cell with no light or available water for protesting the suspension of correspondence and the delivery of food and medical supplies from his family.

After 14 years of renting the stadium San Lorenzo with the help of fans inaugurated the new stadium, called the Nuevo Gasómetro opened December 1993 at the intersection of the Perito Moreno and Varela avenues in the Flores neighborhood.

* 1991 ( with Francisco Varela and Evan F. Thompson ).

He was first married to Maria Helena Varela Santos ( the first TV announcer in Portugal ), with whom he had two children: Paulo and Maria João.

He won the state championship with Varela in 2008.