Varela, F. (1996), Neurophenomenology: A Methodological remedy to the hard problem, J.Consc.Studies 3:330-350.
    • also in: J.Shear (Ed.), Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem of Consciousness, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1997, pp. 337-358.
     • also in: Pluriverso (Milan), 3:16-40 (1997) (italian)

Varela, F. (1996), The early days of autopoiesis: Heinz and Chile, Systems Research 13:407-417.

Luisi,L. Lazcano,A. and Varela,F. (1996), Autopiesis: the very idea, in: Defining Life: The central problem in theoretical biology, M.Rizzotti (Ed.), Universit· de Padova, Padova, pp.146-167.

Varela, F.J. (1997), The Body's Self, in: D.Goleman (Ed.), Health and Emotions, Shambhala, Boston, pp. 49-67 ss

Varela, F. (1997), Patterns of Life: Intertwining identity and cognition, Brain Cognition 34:72-87

Varela, F. (1997), Qu’est-ce que la vie artificielle?, Pour la Science, No.240, Octobre, pp.10-12.

Varela, F. (1997), A science of consciousness as if experience mattered, In: S.Hameroff, A.Kazniak, and A.Scott (Eds.), Towards the Science of Consciousness: The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates, MIT Press, pp. 31-44.

Varela, F. (1997), The Naturalization of Phenomenology as the Transcendence of Nature: Searching for generative mutual constraints, Alter : Revue de PhÈnomÈnologie N†5 pp.355-385(Paris)

Varela, F. (1997), Metaphor to mechanism: Natural to disciplined, J.Consc.Studies4:344-346.

Varela, F. (1998), The neurodynamics of retention, In: J.L.Petit (Ed.), Les Neurosciences et la Philosophie de l'Action, J.Vrin, Paris, pp.231-243.

Varela, F, (1999), First-person methodologies: why, when and how., J.Consc.Studies 6(2-3):1-14.

Varela, F.J. (1999), Present-time consciousness, J.Consc.Studies6(2-3):111-140.

    • revised version in: Envisioning Knowledge, B.Wiens (Ed.), Dumont, Cologne, 2000.
     • french translation: Theorie, LittÈrature, Enseignement, No.17, pp.7-21, 1999.
     • italian: Argonauti de la Noosphera, Centro Piu Manzu, pp.66-74, 2000.

Roy, J.M., J.Petitot, B.Pachoud and , F.J. Varela, (1999), Beyond the gap. An introduction to naturalizing phenomenology,
in: J.Petitot, F.J. Varela, B.Pachoud and J.M.Roy (Eds.), Naturalizing Phenomenology, Stanford University Press, pp.1-83.

Varela, F. (1999), The specious present: The neurophenomenology of time consciousness, in: J.Petitot, F.J. Varela, B.Pachoud and J.M.Roy (Eds.), Naturalizing Phenomenology, Stanford University Press.

Varela, F. (1999), A dimly perceived horizon: The complex meeting ground between lived and physical time, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sciences 879:143-154.

Varela, F. (1999), Dasein's Brain: Phenomenology meets Cognitive Science, in: D.Aerts (Ed.), Einstein Meets Magritte: The White Book, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 185-197.

Varela, F. (1999), "Cognition et Sciences cognitives" in: D.Lecourt (Ed.), Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences,
Presses Universitaires de France, pp.185-191.

Varela, F., (2000), Why the proper study of mind implies the transcendence of nature, in J.Andresen (Ed.), Religion in Mind: Cognitive Science and Religious Experience, Cambridge Univ. Press

Depraz, N., F.Varela and P.Vermersch (2000)
The gesture of awareness: An acount of its structural dynamics, in: M.Velmans (Ed.), Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness, Benjamin Publishers, Amsterdam
      • also in: R.K¸hn und Michael Staudigl (Hg.), EpochÈ und Reduktion, Karl Alber Verlag
      • also in: Etudes Philosophiques

Varela, F. (2000), La rÈduction phÈnomÈnologique a l'Èpreuve de l'expÈrience: RÈponse a  F.-D.
   Sebbah, dans: M.J. Durand-Richard (Ed.), Des lois de la pensÈe au constructivisme,
Editions EHSS, Paris

Varela, F. (2000), Upwards and downwards causation in the brain: Case studies on the emergence and  efficacy of consciousness, In: K.Yasue and M.Jibu (eds.), Towards a Science of Consciousness Tokyo '99,  Benjamin Publishers, Amsterdam, 2000.

Varela, F.  and N.Depraz, At the source of time: Valance and the constitutional dynamics of affect, in : Ipseity  and Alterity, Arob@se: An electronic journal, http://www.liane.net/arobase

Cohen, A. and F. Varela, Facing up to the embarrasement: psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience, Actes Etats GÈneraux de la Psychoanalyse, Paris July 2000, http://members.aol.com/call97