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Autopoiesis, creativity and dance [PDF]

Connection Science, 2017
For many years three key aspects of creative processes have been glossed over by theorists eager to avoid the mystery of consciousness and instead embrace an implicitly more formal, computational vision: autonomy, phenomenality and the temporally ...
J. Mark Bishop, Mohammad M. al-Rifaie
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Selectively advantageous instability in biotic and pre-biotic systems and implications for evolution and aging [PDF]

Frontiers in Aging
Rules of biology typically involve conservation of resources. For example, common patterns such as hexagons and logarithmic spirals require minimal materials, and scaling laws involve conservation of energy. Here a relationship with the opposite theme is
John Tower
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Infusing Autopoietic and Cognitive Behaviors into Digital Automata to Improve Their Sentience, Resilience, and Intelligence

Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2022
All living beings use autopoiesis and cognition to manage their “life” processes from birth through death. Autopoiesis enables them to use the specification in their genomes to instantiate themselves using matter and energy transformations.
Rao Mikkilineni
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Autopoiesis and Its Efficacy—A Metacybernetic View

Systems, 2021
This paper seeks to explain the nature of autopoiesis and its capacity to be efficacious, and to do this, it uses agency theory as embedded in metacybernetics. Agency, as a generalised intelligent adaptive living system, can anticipate the future once it
Maurice Yolles, B. Roy Frieden
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Autopoiesis and Eigenform

Computation, 2023
This paper explores a formal model of autopoiesis as presented by Maturana, Uribe and Varela, and analyzes this model and its implications through the lens of the notions of eigenforms (fixed points) and the intricacies of Goedelian coding.
Louis H. Kauffman
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Sociocybernetics and autopoiesis

Communicare, 2022
Contemporary debates in social disciplines are making increasing reference to theoretical concepts such as sociocybernetics and autopoiesis (Bailey, 1983, 1997, 2001; Bopry, 2007, Brier, 2005; Geyer, 1994, 1995, 2003; Glanville, 2004; Goldspink, 2001 ...
Sonja Verwey
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A FENOMENOLOGIA DA PERCEPÇÃO A PARTIR DA AUTOPOIESIS DE HUMBERTO MATURANA E FRANCISCO VARELA [PDF]

Griot: Revista de Filosofia, 2012
No presente artigo pretendo apresentar a Autopoiesis, uma teoria formulada pelo biólogo chileno Humberto Maturana e pelo médico chileno Francisco Varela.
Claudia Castro de Andrade
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Info-Autopoiesis and Digitalisation

Proceedings, 2022
Digital information and communication technologies have been a powerful force for change since the middle of the 20th century. Their Promethean reach demands laying bare their hidden tentacles to maximize benefit and minimize harm to living-beings-in ...
Jaime F. Cárdenas-García
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Aproximación Teórica Sustentada en la Autopoiésis para Optimizar la Funcionalidad de la Gerencia en las Escuelas Bolivarianas

Revista Scientific, 2017
La presente investigación tuvo como propósito construir una aproximación teórica sustentada en la autopoiésis para optimizar la funcionalidad de la gerencia en las escuelas bolivarianas.
Sonia Elena Garfides González
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Sistemas urbanos autopoiéticos. Las quebradas de Valparaíso como modelo de resiliencia urbana frente a la catástrofe = Autopoietic urban systems. The ravines of Valparaíso as a model of urban resilience in the face of catastrophe

Cuadernos de Investigación Urbanística, 2022
Resumen El incendio de 2014 en Valparaíso es considerado el mayor evento de estas características ocurrido en la historia de esta ciudad, dejando un área urbana de devastación de 148 hectáreas, 2.910 casas destruidas y alrededor de 12.000 damnificados ...
Francisco Javier Parada Pino
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