Humberto Maturana's 1960 Lecture, University of Chile
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The biology of cognition traces back to a 1960 lecture by Humberto Maturana at the University of Chile, where a student's question about the origins of life set him on the line of inquiry that shaped his later work.
Its origin story itself felt significant. It arose not from engineering or computing, but from biology, from Humberto Maturana's relentless questioning during a lecture at the University of Chile in 1960. A student asked what precisely happened 3.8 billion years ago at the origin of life that enabled life, uniquely, to expand and persist through time.
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In the framework
- Autopoiesis · concept
In the book
- Chapter 5, section 047 · The Biological Turn: Towards Autopoiesis
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