A book with depth beyond any textbook I've read yet which looks like an easy reader at first sight. Very, very deceptive. Needs careful consideration as it bridges across so many traditional disciplines - who'd have thought a biologist could create a theory about love? To understand this book is to see the world in a profoundly changed way. I believe the two of them could have made it easier to understand - for example Hoffman has very similar ideas (radical constructivism) and manages to communicate more effectively. Autopoiesis is a cracking good theory with many many applications. I'm not sure though that Maturana is in favour of all of them... I wonder if Capra's broken ideas about social autopoiesis come straight from the horse's mouth? ( )