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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Chilean anthropologists, Chilean astronomers, Chilean biologists, Chilean computer scientists, Chilean engineers, Chilean foresters, Chilean geographers, Chilean geologists, Chilean hydrographers, Chilean linguists, Chilean mathematicians, Chilean physicists, Chilean sociologists, Francisco Varela, Humberto Maturana, Cristian de la Fuente, Ignacy Domeyko, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Evelyn Matthei, Ricardo Rozzi, Carlos Conca, Alejandro Correa Rueda, Baruch Arensburg, Marta Harnecker, Carlos Keller, Robert Winthrop Simpson, Robert Frucht, Gunther Uhlmann, Leonardo Farkas, Francisco Hudson, Pablo Huneeus, Carlos Torres, Juan Ignacio Molina, Claudio Veliz, Jorge Allende, Mario Hamuy, Magdalena Matte, Maria Eugenia Larrain, Camila Merino, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Raul Saez, Marcela Contreras, Juan Francisco Salazar, Claudio Bunster, Rodolfo Amando Philippi, Wladimir Carcamo Soto, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche, Rodolfo Parada, Alejandro Jadresic, Hugo K. Sievers, Francisco Vidal Gormaz, S. Cofre, Eric Goles, Klaus von Storch, Maria Catrileo, Pedro Jose Amadeo Pissis, Tomas Monfil, Claudio Donoso, Mario Pino Quivido, Juan Bruggen Messtorff. Excerpt: Humberto Maturana (born September 14, 1928, in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean biologist and philosopher. He is considered a member of the second wave of cybernetics, known for developing a theory of autopoiesis about the nature of reflexive feedback control in living systems. After completing secondary school at the Liceo Manuel de Salas in 1947, Maturana enrolled at the University of Chile, studying first medicine then biology. In 1954, he obtained a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to study anatomy and neurophysiology at University College London. He obtained a PhD in biology from Harvard University in 1958. He works in neuroscience at the University...