A person not well known in Chile that I think is really interesting for their thoughts and proposal, is called Humberto Maturana. He is a Chilean biologist and writer. He was born in September of 1928 and study at the secondary school Manuel de Salas and graduate in 1947, and enter to the University of Chile to study the career of medicine. He also obtained a “Phd” in biology in the Harvard University in 1958. Along with Francisco Varela, in the decade of the seventies, creating a new term called “autopoiesis”, a neologism that refers “to a system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself”, like one cell or nature living systems. Maturana writes a lot of articles, books, that really interesting me, because he blend the philosophy with cognitive science and biology. I think that the production of knowledge have to contain an holistic perspective.

Here is a picture of Maturana (in the left) and Varela.