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

This 2013 piece from the Chilean outlet El Mostrador marks the 40th anniversary of Humberto Maturana's concept of autopoiesis, described as one of Chilean science's most influential contributions internationally. It recounts how the idea originated from a student's question in 1960 about the nature of life, which Maturana could not answer at the time, and how he and Francisco Varela developed the concept over the following decade. It explains autopoiesis as understanding living beings as closed, self-producing cyclical systems, networks of molecular components that generate themselves, and traces how Maturana later extended the concept from biology into language, cognition, education and philosophy, including his idea of humans as inseparably biological-cultural beings and his later work with Ximena Dávila at the Matríztica institute. Credits: Cossio, H. (2013). A 40 años de la autopoiesis de Maturana, el concepto más revolucionario de la ciencia chilena a nivel mundial - El Mostrador.