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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
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Earth’s Complexity Is Non-Computable: The Limits of Scaling Laws, Nonlinearity and Chaos [PDF]

Entropy, 2021
Current physics commonly qualifies the Earth system as ‘complex’ because it includes numerous different processes operating over a large range of spatial scales, often modelled as exhibiting non-linear chaotic response dynamics and power scaling laws ...
Sergio Rubin, Michel Crucifix
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Antoni Kępińskis „Informationsmetabolismus“ und Niklas Luhmanns „Autopoiesis“. Zwei Begriffe – ein Konzept? [PDF]

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Philosophica, 2016
Die Konzepte „Informationsmetabolismus“ von Antoni Kępiński und „Autopoiesis“ von Niklas Luhmann rekurrieren auf die Struktur biologischer Zellen. Beide Autoren übertragen diese biologischen Strukturen auf ihre jeweiligen Anwendungsfelder.
Florian Steger, Maximilian Schochow
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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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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 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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Autocatalysis, Autopoiesis, and the Opportunity Cost of Individuality. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Kliska N, Nehaniv CL.
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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, 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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