A 40 años de la autopoiesis de Maturana, el concepto más revolucionario de la ciencia chilena a nivel mundial

This article for the Chilean outlet El Mostrador covers the significance of autopoiesis, the concept Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela introduced to describe living systems as closed, self-producing cyclical networks that continually generate and maintain their own components. The piece traces the concept's origin to a student's question put to Maturana around 1960 about the origin of life, and follows how Maturana and Varela extended it into an account of human cognition, perception and language, work that went on to influence biology, medicine, education, philosophy and psychology internationally. It presents autopoiesis as one of the most globally influential ideas to come out of Chilean science. Credits: Cossio, H. (22 de julio de 2018). A 40 años de la autopoiesis de Maturana, el concepto más revolucionario de la ciencia chilena a nivel mundial. Obtenido de El Mostrador: https://www.elmostrador.cl/s/NSbXv