“Anything said is said by an observer.”

— Humberto Maturana

Attributed to Maturana in: Heinz von Foerster (1979) " Cybernetics of Cybernetics http://faculty.stevenson.edu/jlombardi/pdf's/cybernetics.pdf"
Von Foerster "baptized"this quote as "Humberto Maturana’s Theorem Number One".

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Chilean biologist and philosopher 1928

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