Magro C., Stralen M. van & Cabral Filho J. (2025) Humberto Maturana’s Anthroporobotics: A Promising Dialogue with Pask’s Non-Representational Machines. Constructivist Foundations 21(1): 29

Humberto Maturana’s Anthroporobotics: A Promising Dialogue with Pask’s Non-Representational Machines

Cristina Magro, Mateus van Stralen & José Cabral Filho

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Open peer commentary on the article “Steps Toward Anthroporobotics: A Conversation With Humberto Maturana” by Ignacio Muñoz-Cristi. Abstract: In this commentary, we highlight Maturana’s departure from the conventional epistemic tripod in sciences and philosophy – representationalism, reductionism, and essentialism – which also substantiates standard approaches in robotics, AI, and cybernetics. We take Gordon Pask’s non-representational machines and their interactive, performative nature in the context of cybernetics as a source of reflections triggered by Maturana’s ontological-constitutive perspective that can be fruitful for the development of cybernetics and, ultimately, for our understanding of human living and inhabiting.

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Magro C., Stralen M. van & Cabral Filho J. (2025) Humberto Maturana’s anthroporobotics: A promising dialogue with pask’s non-representational machines. Constructivist Foundations 21(1): 29–32. https://constructivist.info/21/1/029 Copy Citation

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