Autopoiesis
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The term autopoiesis, one of several current theories of life, refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts. Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Franci
3D representation of a living cell during the process of mitosis, example of an autopoietic system
Humberto Maturana
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Humberto Maturana Romesín was a Chilean biologist and philosopher. Some name him a second-order cybernetics theoretician alongside the likes of Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün and Ernst
Autopoiesis
…one of several current theories of life, refers to a system capable of producing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts. Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, in the 1972 publication Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, introduced the term to define the self-maintaining…
Maturana in 2015
Maturana, 2012
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