autopoiesis

Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model.

Some social scientists use autopoiesis as a model for the development of structural coupling in the family.

Isaac spent many hours watching the chrysalis, but he could only imagine the struggle of autopoiesis within.

Autopoiesis was originally presented as a system description that was said to define and explain the nature of living systems.

Marjatta Maula adapted the concept of autopoiesis in a business context.

See also the general field of second-order cybernetics which directly pertains to autopoiesis.

Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living.

This is the theory behind autopoiesis and self-organization.

-one of the original papers on the concept of autopoiesis.

Maturana and Varela are seeking to understand what they term autopoiesis, how living things self-produce.

This is in contrast with autopoiesis.

Sociocybernetics: complexity, autopoiesis, and observation of social systems.

Note: from a strictly Maturanian point of view, autopoiesis is an essential property of biological/living systems.

By this definition, autopoiesis is broader than simple 'self-replication', and none of the earlier systems could be classified as autopoietic.

Autopoiesis: a review and a reappraisal.

-an adaptation of autopoiesis to language.

We may distinguish between four different dimensional frame- works: autopoiesis, ontogeny, phylogeny, anagenesis.'"

"Art as Autopoiesis?

For the system to obey the rules of autopoiesis, the reaction must occur at the appropriate location at the interface between the structures and the medium.

Maturana's research interest concerns concepts like cognition, autopoiesis, languaging, zero time cybernetics and structural determined systems.

Maturana and his student Francisco Varela were the first to define and employ the concept of autopoiesis.

The Spinozistic conception of a conatus was a historical precursor to modern theories of autopoiesis in biological systems.

The postulates of autopoiesis theory do not so much guide empirical research as explain conclusively how to interpret whatever this research may discover."

This idea forms the basis of Maturana and Varela's idea of autopoiesis (self-production).

Metadesign can therefore allude to a possible design practice that (re)designs itself (see Maturana and Varela's term autopoiesis).