>Essentially, he tackles one of the great dilemmas of cultural psychology,
>to synthesize individualistic psychologies with those that emphasize
>culture and context. In introducing his task, he says, "The person
>simultaneously *is* and maintains his or her autonomy relative to the given
>social context, and *has become* the way he or she is through the history
>of such relations."
Maturana and Varela's (1980, 1987) thesis about autopoiesis can and has
also been expressed in very similar terms.
Phil
Phil Graham
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