Neurophenomenological Rehabilitation: Reconceptualizing Recovery as the Expansion of the Autopoietic System
Biosemiotics August 14, 2026 Yoshiya Murabe
Autopoiesis, originally developed by Maturana and Varela, has been influential across multiple disciplines, but its application to rehabilitation medicine remains theoretically underdeveloped. This paper proposes Neurophenomenological Rehabilitation, a theoretical framework for understanding recovery not as the restoration of isolated bodily functions, but as the reorganization and expansion of...