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Uncommon card · Science
Humberto Maturana, an Uncommon card
Humberto Maturana Romesín was a Chilean biologist and philosopher.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Humberto Maturana quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Humberto Maturana card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of ______ thinking and cybernetics.
Answer
systems. His work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of systems thinking and cybernetics. From the Humberto Maturana article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Humberto Maturana. Humberto Maturana 65 · Franz Rosenzweig 62 · Daniel T. Barry 59 · Glyceraldehyde 55 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Some name him a second-order cybernetics theoretician alongside the likes of Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst von Glasersfeld.
- Maturana, along with Francisco Varela and Ricardo B. Uribe, was known for creating the term "autopoiesis" about the self-generating, self-maintaining structure in living systems, and concepts such as structural determinism and structural coupling.
- His work was influential in many fields, mainly the field of systems thinking and cybernetics.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Humberto Maturana article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Humberto Maturana
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Humberto Maturana (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rodrigo Fernández, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
