Huberto Maturana
Humberto Augusto Gastón Maturana Romesín (Santiago, September 14, 1928-Ibídem, May 6, 2021), known simply as Humberto Maturana, was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, and writer, national science award winner in 1994
He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1958 and 1960. Later, together with his student and then collaborator Francisco Varela, he developed his original concept of autopoiesis in his book From Machines and Living Beings (1972), a concept that accounts for the organization (internal) of living systems as closed networks of self-production of the components that constitute them. Additionally, he laid the foundations of the "biology of cognition," a discipline that takes on explaining the operation of living beings as closed systems determined by their structure
Another important aspect of his reflections corresponds to the invitation Maturana made to change the question from "being" (a question that assumes the existence of an objective reality, independent of the observer) to the question of "doing" (a question that starts from the objectivity in parentheses, meaning that objects are "brought to hand" through the operations of distinction carried out by the observer, understood as any human being operating in language)
He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1958 and 1960. Later, together with his student and then collaborator Francisco Varela, he developed his original concept of autopoiesis in his book From Machines and Living Beings (1972), a concept that accounts for the organization (internal) of living systems as closed networks of self-production of the components that constitute them. Additionally, he laid the foundations of the "biology of cognition," a discipline that takes on explaining the operation of living beings as closed systems determined by their structure
Another important aspect of his reflections corresponds to the invitation Maturana made to change the question from "being" (a question that assumes the existence of an objective reality, independent of the observer) to the question of "doing" (a question that starts from the objectivity in parentheses, meaning that objects are "brought to hand" through the operations of distinction carried out by the observer, understood as any human being operating in language)
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