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IDEAS Varela is also a proponent of the Embodied Philosophy which claims that human Cognition and Consciousness can only be understood in terms of the enactive structures in which they arise, namely the body, and the environment in which the body interacts. He made an impact on the neuroscience profession by introducing concepts such as neurophenomenology, based on writings of Husserl, and "first person science" in which observers apply scientifically verifiable methods for examining the nature of their own conscious experience. He became a Tibetan Buddhist in the 1970s initially studying with the meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, founder of Shambhala Buddhism , and eventually with Tulku Ugyen , a Nepalese master of higher Tantra s. He was a founding member of the Integral Institute , a Thinktank dedicated to the cross-fertilization of ideas and disciplines. He was the author of dozens of academic journal articles and several books which made impacts in the crosscurrents of several fields. His death was caused by Hepatitis C . For his own account of his liver transplant, see "Intimate Distances - Fragments for a Phenomenology of Organ Transplantation" He is also the father of actress and model Leonor Varela . SEE ALSO BIBLIOGRAPHY For a comprehensive bibliography, see Randall Whitaker's page .
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