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Professor humberto maturana, with his colleague francisco varela, have. The tree of knowledge, the biological roots of human understanding this is one of the seminal books that i have studied. Maturana has 26 books on goodreads with 5836 ratings. This book was first published in 1987, but i have only come across it myself recently, thanks to the recommendation of marc lewis.
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