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    Luhmann briefly introduced the concept of autopoiesis to organizational theory. In their 1972 book Autopoiesis and Cognition, Chilean biologists Maturana...
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  • concept of autopoiesis, or 'self-creation' in biological systems in an effort to address cognition and autonomy in living systems. Autopoiesis was a core...
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    confluence of the cybernetic logic of feedback, the sub-disciplines of autopoiesis developed by Varela and Humberto Maturana, and calculus of indications...
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    mentor Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote...
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  • of Living Systems: A Formal Model of Autopoiesis," Int. J. General Systems, 4(1977) I, pp. 13–28. "APL-AUTOPOIESIS: Experiments in Self-Organization of...
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    Reprinted in: Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Dordecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1980, pp. 5–58. 1979 Autopoiesis and Cognition:...
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    concerns. It was still grounded in biology, notably Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis, and built on earlier work on self-organising systems and the presence...
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    ecology Self-replication Geomorphology Systems theory and cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information...
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    ecology Self-replication Geomorphology Systems theory and cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information...
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  • ecology Self-replication Geomorphology Systems theory and cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information...
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    Hofkirchner, W. (2009). "Autopoiesis and Critical Social Systems Theory. In Magalhães, R., Sanchez, R., (Eds.)". Autopoiesis in Organization: Theory and...
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  • something that did not previously exist. Forms of poiesis—including autopoiesis, the process of sustenance through the emergence of sustaining parts—are...
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    Architectural Design. In 2011, Schumacher published the first volume of The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which he called his "opus magnum", offering a "New Framework...
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    Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela originally coined the concept of autopoiesis within theoretical biology to describe the self-reproduction of living...
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  • suggesting that they offer analogues for living systems. The distinction of autopoiesis as made by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela represent further developments...
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    might have "emerged as a function of the origin of the genetic code". Autopoiesis Formamide-based prebiotic chemistry – Scientific efforts aimed at reconstructing...
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  • distinct from the machines doing the producing. This is in contrast with autopoiesis. Allopoiesis is a compound word formed from allo- (Greek prefix meaning...
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    fields, such as the action theory of Talcott Parsons and the sociological autopoiesis of Niklas Luhmann. In this context the word systems is used to refer...
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    ecology Self-replication Geomorphology Systems theory and cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information...
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  • 22 February 2012. Rodrigo Magalhães; Ron Sanchez (2 November 2009). Autopoiesis in organization theory and practice. Emerald Group Publishing. p. 152...
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  • various texts from cybernetics according to the principals they proposed; autopoiesis, developed by biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela; conversation...
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  • doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0794-48. Some Remarks on Autocatalysis and Autopoiesis (Barry McMullin) Jain, Sanjay; Krishna, Sandeep (21 December 1998). "Autocatalytic...
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    disciplines. Affect control theory Control engineering Control systems Autopoiesis Conversation Theory Engineering Cybernetics Perceptual Control Theory...
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  • ecology Self-replication Geomorphology Systems theory and cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information...
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  • system theory. At the biological level, this model is correspondent to autopoiesis. A viable system is any system organised in such a way as to meet the...
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  • strange loop Absurdism – Theory that life in general is meaningless Autopoiesis – Systems concept which entails automatic reproduction and maintenance...
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  • for research related to general systems theory and systems science. Autopoiesis Cybernetics Dynamic system Integral theory Meta-knowledge Meta-system...
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  • ecology Self-replication Geomorphology Systems theory and cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information...
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  • of transformation, Tim Ingold suggests that history is a movement of autopoiesis A key component to making sense of all of this is to simply recognize...
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    Maturana and Francisco Varela, living organisms are characterized by autopoiesis, which enables their continued existence. More primitive forms of self-organizing...
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