Francisco Varela
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About
Chilean philosopher and academic best remembered for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
Before Fame
He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in biology with his thesis titled Insect Retinas: Information processing in the compound eye and supervised by Torsten Wiesel.
Trivia
He became a Tibetan Buddhist during the 1970s. He pioneered the biological concept of autopoiesis.
Family Life
He had four children. He and his family spent seven years in the United States in exile after the 1973 military coup that was led by Augusto Pinochet.
Associated With
He and artist Adrian Piper both earned degrees from Harvard University.
