Participant: Humberto Romesín Maturana
Affiliation: Escuela Matriztica de Santiago
Format: Plenary Speech
Themes:

Who are we? From where do we do what we do? How do we do what we do? These are fundamental questions in every reflection about the nature of our existence that have been answered in different manners at different moments of the history of humanity. In each case the reflections have necessarily been realized from basic notions whose acceptance have determined the nature of the answer. At the same time, those basic notions were accepted a priori as evident conditions of the cultural present in which they appeared, or they were fundamented, if there were doubts, with some other more basic notions that were also accepted a priori.

For this occasion, I will not make a historic reflection but I will refer to the biological fundaments of all cognitive statements. In this process I will specially consider the operation of the nervous system in its continuous generation of changes of internal relations of activity. I will refer to the operation of the living beings in their continuous generation of them selves in their molecular autopoiesis, which altogether constitute the closed system that generates all the worlds that a living being lives in its operation as a totality in the organism-niche unity in which it exists.

In this process, I will reveal that we human beings through our operating in languaging and conversation are generators of everything, even of our own existence in what myself and Ximena Dávila refer to as Fundamental Relativity.