Humberto Maturana Romesin was a Chilean biologist and philosopher.
11 Facts About Humberto Maturana
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Humberto Maturana's work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of systems thinking and cybernetics.
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Humberto Maturana obtained a PhD in biology from Harvard University in 1958.
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Humberto Maturana worked in neuroscience at the University of Chile, in the Biologia del Conocer research center.
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Humberto Maturana's work has been developed and integrated into the work on ontological coaching developed by Fernando Flores and Julio Olalla.
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Humberto Maturana established his own reflection and research center, the Instituto de Formacion Matriztica.
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Humberto Maturana died in Santiago on May 6,2021, at age 92, due to pneumonia.
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Humberto Maturana's work extends to philosophy and cognitive science and even to family therapy.
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Humberto Maturana was inspired by the work of the biologist Jakob von Uexkull.
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Humberto Maturana's inspiration for his work in cognition came while he was a medical student and became seriously ill with tuberculosis.
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Humberto Maturana described the origins of the concept of autopoiesis and his collaboration with Varela.