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Maturana and his student Francisco Varela were the first to define and to employ the concept of Autopoiesis . Aside from making important contributions to the field of Evolution , Maturana is also a founder of Radical Constructivism , a Relativistic Epistemology built upon Empirical findings of Neurobiology . Maturna and Varela wrote in their Santiago Theory Of Cognition : Living systems are cognitive systems, and living as a process is a process of cognition. This statement is valid for all organisms, with or without a nervous system. 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 Of Chile , in the research center "Biología del Conocer" (Biology of Knowledge). Maturana's work has been developed and integrated into the work on Ontological Coaching done by Fernando Flores and Julio Olalla . As of the year 2000, professor Maturana established his own reflection and research center: the Instituto De Formación Matriztica . Here Maturana has contributed extensively to the Biology of Knowledge and Biology of Loving. At this point, Maturana has formulated, with Ximena Davila , new perspectives about human life and continues to do so; psychology, the use of language, experience, and the general impulse to understand serve as explanatory bases for the depiction of human ways of life. SELECTED WRITINGS
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