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Francisco Varela
Francisco Javier Varela Garcia , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.
Francisco Varela was born in 1946 in Santiago in Chile. After completing secondary school at the Liceo Aleman de Santiago (1951-1963),like his mentor Humberto Maturana, Varela studied first medicine then biology at the University of Chile, then did a Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University. His thesis, defended in 1970 and supervised by Torsten Wiesel, was titled Insect Retinas: Information processing in the compound eye.
After the 1973 military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, Varela and his family spent 7 years in exile in the USA before returning to Chile to become a Professor of biology.
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John Brockman
Randall Whitaker
Evan Thompson,
Eleanor Rosch,
Review of The Embodied Mind,
Escher, enaction & intersubjectivity.
Why the mind is not in the head
Film Monte Grande - What is Life?
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