Published: December 2021

Keywords:
Humberto Maturana, Bogotá, Colombia, System, Process, Change, Scientific, Knowing.

Humberto Maturana

Humberto Maturana Romesín is a Chilean biologist and epistemologist. Along with Francisco Varela, he developed the concept of autopoiesis. He is also the author (with Varela) of The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Maturana received a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard and worked with Jerome Lettvin at MIT. He is co-founder, with Ximena Dávila Yañez, of Matriztica de Santiago. With her, he is the co-author of The Tree of Living: Toward a Cultural Transformation, now in press.

Abstract

Here are a few snapshots from a seminar of Maturana in Bogotá, Colombia (1996).

Many thanks to Dr Eduardo Villar for offering Metalogos the whole series of Maturana's seminars in Colombia. Unfortunately, the sound is awful, so it might not be possible to upload more video clips of these seminars in the following issues of Metalogos as we wished to schedule.