Coba jelasin Lihat pula dari Francisco Varela dong

Varela telah menulis banyak buku-buku dan artikel-artikel, diantaranya:

1980 (dengan Humberto Maturana). Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Boston: Reidel.

1979. Principles of Biological Autonomy. North-Holland.

1987 (rev 92, 98) (dengan Humberto Maturana). The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Boston: Shambhala Press.

1991 (dengan Evan Thompson dan Eleanor Rosch). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. MIT Press.

1992 (dengan P. Bourgine, eds.). Towards a Practice of Autonomous Systems: The First European Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press.

1992 (dengan J. Hayward, eds.). Gentle Bridges: Dialogues Between the Cognitive Sciences and the Buddhist Tradition. Boston: Shambhala Press.

1993 ( dengan D. Stein, eds.). Thinking About Biology: An Introduction to Theoretical Biology. Addison-Wesley, SFI Series on Complexity.

1997 (ed.). Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying. Boston: Wisdom Book.

1996-99. Invitation aux sciences cognitives. Paris: Seuil.

1999. Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom and Cognition. Stanford University Press.

1999 (with J. Shear, eds.). The View from Within: First-Person Methodologies in the Study of Consciousness. London: Imprint Academic.

1999 (with J. Petitot, B. Pachoud, and J-M. Roy, eds.). Naturalizing Phenomenology: Contemporary Issues in Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Stanford University Press.

2002 (with A. Weber). 'Life after Kant: Natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of biological individuality'. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences I:97–125, 2002.

Sarat Maharaj & Francisco Varela in conversation: "Ahamkara". In: Florian Dombois, Ute Meta Bauer, Claudia Mareis, and Michael Schwab, eds. Intellectual Birdhouse: Artistic Practice as Research. London: Koenig, 2011. .