About Francisco J. Varela Francisco J. Varela (1946– 2001) was Director of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Professor of Cognitive Science and Epistemology, CREA, at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, and Cofounder of the Mind and Life Institute. Books by Francisco J. Varela The Embodied Mind, revised edition Cognitive Science and Human Experience by (author) Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn