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from Francisco Varela
from Iain Hamilton Grant
from Free Agents
  • In part he seems to be rediscovering Francisco Varela's notion of autopoiesis, although it is not cited.
    • The activity of the organism changes the environment and the organism's relation to it. The apparently linear chain of causation is really a loop or series of loops—you can think of it as a spiral stretched through time.
    • The phase transition:
    • For a long time, nothing in the universe did anything. There was a lot goig on, to be sure...its not that nothing happened,—it's that nothing in the universe could be said to be doing any of it. And then, at some point, actors emerged on this stage. Simple lifeless components were somehow assembled into forms that held themselves apart from these general happenings and instaed acted on the world.(p24)
from Performance All the Way Down
from Conceptual Animism
  • Conceptual animism (CA), is the name for the hyperstitional possibility that agency does not lie in any putative subject but rather only in the symbiosis of conceptual entities within a local space. This local space (the human site as heuristically separate from the conceptual entities), will be known as the regional processor (RP) to indicate this sense of discretion which assimilation, interaction of conceptual entities takes place . The paper will initially explain the hyperstitional notion and its relvance here before explaining the two basic versions of conceptual animism. Subsequent to this we will attempt to show the following reasons to facilitate the hyperstitional insertion of CA: i) Conceptual shot-throughness ii) autopoiesis . iii) The facticity of thought iv) the dimension of religious/occult thoughtii characterised by what will be known as informational interference (elsewhere known as omens, synchronicity, signs)
from Conceptual Animism
from Iain Hamilton Grant
  • Maturana and Varela provide, in the theory of autopoiesis and cognition, an excellent example of the power of idealism in science. e theorization of the primacy of organization and relation as denitive of a self-organizing totality is very similar to that of Hegelian idealism.
from self-creation
  • See autopoiesis which is the same idea but from a technical scientific view, or as much as those crazy cybernetics guys could manage. I'm talking personal experience here.
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    • Self-creating. A term created and promulgated by Maturana and Varela, and the core of their theories about the nature of biological life.
    • 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.