Francisco Varela, a biologist at the National University of Chile and author of Autopoiesis and Cognition and The Embodied Mind, relates his personal experience during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état to his personal conviction that ‘epistemology does matter.' Amidst the chaos of the coup, Varela experiences a moment of clarity and begins to understands the 'logic of paradise.' (Episode photo courtesy of goodreads.com)