Humberto Maturana: A brilliant scientist and philosopher He is a Chilean scientist and philosopher. Humberto Maturana is a biologist that has studied the nervous system and the living beings. His curiosity about how we know or perceive in a biological sense, made him study the nervous system to understand how it works. He also was curious about how the life works and he studied to find the answer. His studies were revolutionaries in the scientific world and also in the philosophical field. He ended up creating a new way of thinking the knowledge, the living beings and the human beings. He always tells episodes of his life that helped him to think about his theories. He mention that his mother taught him to think freely. When he was a child he fell ill because of the tuberculosis. He thought he will die. He was ill in the hospital almost one year. While he was there he saw one dead and he was impressed. That experience made him think about life. He started studying medicine and then he changed to biological sciences. He made his studies in Chile, England and the United States. During his stay in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he began to be more curious about perception and knowledge. Humberto Maturana developed a brilliant scientific theory with his pupil Francisco Varela. The name of his theory is “Autopoiesis” and it is used in different scientific fields. The importance of his ideas is very great than people of different areas that they are using it. He has a great comprehension of human nature in a biological and social sense. Nowadays he has an Institute in Chile where he tries to spread his ideas to help people in Chile and around the world. I think he has an enormous capacity to reflect about everything that makes him very special. His ideas definitely changed my understanding about life and world.