Humberto maturana biography of rory

Chilean biologist and philosopher (1928–2021)

Humberto Maturana Romesín (September 14, 1928 – May 6, 2021) was a Chileanbiologist and philosopher. Many consider him a member of a group of second-order cybernetics theoreticians such as Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld, but in fact he was a biologist, scientist.

Maturana, along with Francisco Varela and Ricardo B. Uribe, was known for creating the term "autopoiesis" about the self-generating, self-maintaining structure in living systems, and concepts such as structural determinism and structural coupling.^[1] His work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of systems thinking and cybernetics.

Overall, his work is concerned with the biology of cognition.^[2] Maturana (2002) insisted that autopoiesis exists only in the molecular domain, and he did not agree with the extension into sociology and other fields:

The molecular domain is the