Humberto Maturana

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#115

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Neuroscience

#41

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#44

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Evolutionary Biology

#72

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#88

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Philosophy

#152

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#377

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Epistemology

#16

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Logic

#160

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#374

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According to Wikipedia, Humberto Maturana Romesín was a Chilean biologist 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.

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Humberto Maturana's Published Works

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Autopoiesis and Cognition : The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Scie (1980) (4833)
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding (1992) (3990)
Autopoiesis and Cognition (1980) (3487)
What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain (1959) (1803)
Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model. (1974) (1612)
The tree of knowledge (1987) (900)
Anatomy and Physiology of Vision in the Frog (Rana pipiens) (1960) (780)
Reality: The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument (1988) (767)
Biology of Language: The Epistemology of Reality (2014) (670)
The organization of the living: A theory of the living organization (1975) (326)
Directional Movement and Horizontal Edge Detectors in the Pigeon Retina (1963) (225)
The Fine Anatomy of the Optic Nerve of Anurans—An Electron Microscope Study (1960) (209)
Two remarks on the visual system of the frog. (1960) (203)
Self-consciousness: How? When? Where? (2006) (193)
Ontology of Observing : The Biological Foundations of Self-Consciousness and of The Physical Domain of Existence (2006) (128)
Structural coupling and cognition: A history of these and other notions in the biology of cognition (2014) (120)
Synaptic Connections of the Centrifugal Fibers in the Pigeon Retina (1965) (119)
From Being to Doing: The Origins of the Biology of Cognition (2004) (107)
Number of Fibres in the Optic Nerve and the Number of Ganglion Cells in the Retina of Anurans (1959) (100)
Science and Daily Life: The Ontology of Scientific Explanations (1990) (95)
Evidence That Cut Optic Nerve Fibers in a Frog Regenerate to Their Proper Places in the Tectum (1959) (92)
The nature of the laws of nature (2000) (92)
Frontal and lateral visual system in birds. Frontal and lateral gaze. (1988) (88)
Regional specialization of the quail retina: Ganglion cell density and oil droplet distribution (1984) (86)
The Bringing Forth of Pathology (1988) (83)
The Neurophysiology of Cognition (1972) (77)
Brain, language and the origin of human mental functions. (1995) (77)
What is it to see? (1983) (73)
Color-opponent responses in the avian lateral geniculate: A study in the quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) (1982) (70)
The Organization of the Living (1999) (67)
Cognitive Strategies (2021) (60)
Efferent fibres in the optic nerve of the toad (Bufo bufo). (1958) (57)
Biology of Cognition (2006) (55)
A biological theory of relativistic colour coding in the primate retina. (1968) (51)
Unidirectional Response to Angular Acceleration recorded from the Middle Cristal Nerve in the Statocyst of Octopus vulgaris (1963) (38)
The quest for the intelligence of intelligence (1980) (37)
What is to see ?. Comparative neurobiology of vision in vertebrates an international symposium. Punta de tralca, chile. 25-27 november, 1982 (1983) (37)
OCTOPUS OPTIC RESPONSES. (1965) (37)
Response to Jim Birch (1991) (28)
Mechanism and Biological Explanation (1972) (27)
Conduction velocity groups in the retino-tectal and retino-thalamic visual pathways of the pigeon (Columbia livia). (1995) (25)
Problems in the Neurophysiology of Cognition (1980) (25)
What The Frogs Eye Tells The Frogs Brain (2015) (24)
Comment by Humberto R. Maturana: The Mind is not in the head (1985) (24)
Cytoarchitecture of the avian ventral lateral geniculate nucleus (1987) (21)
Grundkonzepte der Theorie autopoietischer Systeme: Neun Fragen an Niklas Luhmann und Humberto Maturana und ihre Antworten [Basic concepts of the theory of autopoietic systems. Nine questions to Niklas Luhmann and Humberto Maturana and their answers] (1987) (18)
Response to Berman's Critique of the Tree of Knowledge (1991) (18)
Systemic versus Genetic Determination (2007) (18)
The biology of business: Love expands intelligence (1999) (14)
Time courses of excitation and inhibition in retinal ganglion cells. (1970) (12)
GERENCIAR EM ENFERMAGEM: UMA REFLEXÃO À LUZ DAS IDÉIAS DE HUMBERTO MATURANA NURSING MANAGEMENT: A DISCUSSION IN THE LIGHT OF THE IDEAS (2007) (11)
Oil droplet distribution and colour discrimination in the pigeon. (1971) (11)
Size constancy and the problem of perceptual spaces (1972) (11)
A New Way of Thinking and a New World View: On the Philosophy of Self-Organisation. (2004) (10)
The Biology of Business: Transformation Through Conservation (1999) (9)
Reflections on My Collaboration with Francisco Varela (2012) (9)
THE VIEW OF THE SYSTEMICIST: A CONVERSATION (2004) (8)
The Biological Foundations of Virtual Realities and Their Implications for Human Existence (2008) (7)
Anticipation and Self-consciousness. Are these Functions of the Brain? (2008) (5)
The origin of humanness in the biology of love. Edited by P. Bunnell (2008) (4)
Commentaries on "Darwin’s Lost Theory: Bridge to a Better World" (2022) (4)
Origins and Implications of Autopoiesis. Preface to the Second Edition of De Máquinas y Seres Vivos (2011) (4)
[Perception: behavioral configuration of the object]. (1987) (3)
Diversity of Autopoiesis (1980) (3)
The Paradox of Education: A Conversation (2006) (3)
Understanding Social Systems (2014) (3)
Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela on Science and the Humanities: The Poerksen Interviews (2006) (3)
1 REALITY : THE SEARCH FOR OBJECTIVITY OR THE QUEST FOR A COMPELLING (2008) (2)
Presence of Autopoiesis (1980) (2)
Human beings versus machines , or machines as instruments of human designs ? (2005) (2)
On Machines, Living and Otherwise (1980) (2)
The wholeness of the unity: Conversations with Heinz von Foerster (1979) (2)
Cognitive Function in General (1980) (1)
Confusion of Reflective Domains (2016) (1)
[Basic principles and fundamentals of university reform of 1968]. (1968) (1)
What Is Sociology (2015) (1)
Embodiments of Autopoiesis (1980) (1)
Twenty years After Preface by Humberto Maturana Romesín to the second edition of De Máquinas y Seres Vivos (2011) (1)
Comment by Humberto R. Maturana (1983) (1)
Cognitive Function in Particular (1980) (0)
THE CONCEPT OF SOCIETY Niklas Luhmann (2006) (0)
Dispensability of Teleonomy (1980) (0)
Reflecting on Heinz (2011) (0)
Chapter 6 Autopoiesis and its social application 6 . 1 (2012) (0)
Sub-millisecond synchronization of spike activity in the Isthmi nuclei of pigeons ( Columba livia ) (2005) (0)
INTEGRATION OF THEORY AND EXPERIMENT INTO A UNIFIED CONCEPT OF VISUAL PERCEPTION. (1969) (0)
[Specificity versus ambiguity in the retina of vertebrates]. (1964) (0)
[Language and reality: the origin of man]. (1989) (0)
ANATOMICAL BASIS OF PATTERN RECOGNITION. (1962) (0)
"The plastic splendor of the nervous system does not lie in its production of 'engrams' or representation of things in the world; rather, it lies in its continuous transformation in line with transformations of the environment (2001) (0)
Diseases: Loss of Inner Harmonies? (2017) (0)
A Detailed Study of the Organization of the Rotundo-Entopallial Projections in the Pigeon (Columba livia) (2005) (0)
"The Transcendence of the Observer Discussions at the Conference" The Ethical Meaning of Francisco Varela's Thought" (2012) (0)
Book Reviews and Abstracts (1931) (0)
OnaBicriterion Formulation oftheProblems ofIntegrated System Identification andSystem Optimization (1971) (0)

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