THEORIA ET HISTORIA SCIENTIARUM, VOL. VII, N° 1 Ed. Nicolas Copernicus University 2003 Natalie Depraz, Shaun Gallagher Introduction Natalie Depraz Part I Looking forward to being surprised - at the heart of embodiment - Dedication to Francisco Varela Listenfullness Blown by the wind of Being I listen, listen my ears emptied, filled by the bodies that have loved me. Death came looking for me. I said: I’m full to the brim. F. J. Varela (unpublished poem) Francisco wrote these lines about one month before his liver-transplant, at a moment when he was expecting a liver at any moment without ever knowing at which moment he would be called by the hospital. For nearly one year he literally lived an awaiting as the imminent possibility of both life and death. The