The Observer in Science

Believed that scientific research needs to be complemented by detailed phenomenological investigations of human experience as it is lived and verbally articulated in the first person.
“The course or trajectory of reciprocal engagement between a living system and its observed 'environment' is not reducible to exclusive determination by one or the other.”
He didn't believe that science was the ultimate truth and everything else was superstition. Late in his career he brought together Neuroscientists, Psychologists, and the Dali Lama to discuss the nature of conscienceness.
He applied Autopoietic theory to itself; with post-modern results!
'All truths are created relative, but some are more relative than others. A universal truth only has to be true about our particular universe, so to speak. It doesn't much matter whether the universe itself is true or false, just as long as it makes a good story.' --Larry Wall

Believed that scientific research needs to be complemented by detailed phenomenological investigations of human experience as it is lived and verbally articulated in the first person.