Fresco-Hinchado-Putrefacto-Seco

  During this semester, my favorite subject has been Basic principles of learning . The subject is famous because it has a high percentage of disapproval. Also, it is a polemic subject because it works with non-humans animals, especially with rats. In fact, you can find some graffiti’s in relation to the Speciesism and animal ethics in leaning laboratory. The teachers in charge of the subject investigate the bond between the principles of learning and behavior and psychotherapeutic advances, that is, the dialog between basic and applicate investigation.   The content of the subject consist in two main points: Pavlovian conditioning and instrumental conditioning. The first of them is referred to the learning of signals and the second one to the learning of consequences (the reinforcements increases the frequency of the response, however, the punishments decreases it). Besides, the different leaning processes are put to the test in the laboratory: we can choose humans or rats to co

  Humberto Maturana is a biologist dedicated to the study of relations between life systems. He was born on September 14, 1928 (like my mother, except for the year) and he made all his theoretical and experimental work in Universidad de Chile. The most relevant work of Humberto Maturana is contained in his works The tree of knowledge and Autopoiesis and cognition . Nowadays, Maturana and his collaborators represent the idiosyncratic area known as biology of knowing .   With the collaboration of his student Francisco Varela, Maturana created and described the concept of “autopoiesis”, the one that basically consists in the feature of a system to maintain and reproduce itself. Maturana y Varela (1973, p. 69) defined autopoiesis:   “An autopoietic machine is a machine organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production (transformation and destruction) of components which: (i) through their interactions and transformations continuously regenerate and realize the

  Guillermo Calderón is a Chilean dramatist dedicated to political drama. The most distinguished writing of his are Escuela , Villa , Discurso , Clase and Mateluna . He studied teatro in Universidad de Chile and then he completed a Master in New York.   Escuela and Mateluna are two works related to the guerrilla groups during the dictatorial regime in Chile. The first of them narrates how operated some of the guerrilla groups to fight the oppression, his strategies and the risk of participate in this groups. With the goal of collect documents to complete the first step of the dramaturgic investigation, Guillermo Calderón and his company interviewed ex frontier called Jorge Mateluna. He delivered information about the techniques and the political scene of the military dictatorship from a struggling perspective.   After of the premiere of “Escuela”, Jorge Mateluna was unfairly arrested, perhaps to sentence his past like a member of FPMR (He was accused of being guilty of bank assa