Dialogue on Leadership

In 1996 I did my first interview with Francisco Varela. In that conversation, Varela said that the blind spot of the 20^th century (in cognition science) was concerned with the inability to access experience. He said: I maintain that there is an irreducible core to the quality of experience that needs to be explored with a method. In other words, the problem is not that we don't know enough about the brain or about biology, the problem is that we don't know enough about experience. … We have had a blind spot in the West for that kind of methodical approach, which I would now describe as a more straightforward phenomenological method. … Everybody thinks they know about experience, I claim we don't

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