autopoesis

20 Feb 2022 01:15 - 16 Dec 2022 12:22
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    • Maturana and Francisco Varela term for a self-producing or self-maintaining system.
    • 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 network of processes (relations) that produced them; and (ii) constitute it (the machine) as a concrete unity in space in which they (the components) exist by specifying the topological domain of its realization as such a network.