Humberto Maturana

(1928–2021) Biologist Chile

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Humberto Maturana was a biologist from Chile, best known for Legado.

Quick Facts About Humberto Maturana

Born: September 14, 1928
Died: May 6, 2021
Nationality: Chile
Profession: Biologist
Notable works: Legado

About Humberto Maturana

Humberto Maturana Romesín was a Chilean biologist and philosopher. Some name him a second-order cybernetics theoretician alongside the likes of Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld.

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship National Prize for Sciences (Chile) honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Quotes by Humberto Maturana

The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument…

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Awareness

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Love is the only emotion that expands intelligence

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Emotion

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Everything said is said by someone.

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Funny

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Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

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Existence

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Things do not exist until they begin to appear.

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History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay…

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Attention

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We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we…

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Body

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Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source…

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Acceptance

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