Library Person
Humberto Maturana
Chilean biologist; co-originator, with Francisco Varela, of the concept of autopoiesis.
Humberto Maturana (1928–2021) was a frequent visitor to Heinz von Foerster’s Biological Computer Laboratory, whose second-order cybernetics shaped his own research into cognition as a biological process. With his student Francisco Varela, he coined the term “autopoiesis” for the self-producing, self-maintaining organization of living systems, developing the idea across their jointly authored The Tree of Knowledge (1987).
Works in the Library
Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela BOOK 1987
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
Maturana and Varela on autopoiesis, cognition, and the biology of understanding.
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