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Systems or bodies? On how (not) to embody autopoiesis

Adaptive Behavior, 2020
Villalobos and Razeto-Barry’s embodied reformulation of the autopoietic theory (AT) replaces AT’s reference to autopoietic ‘systems’ with a reference to autopoietic ‘bodies’ so as to prevent an extended enactivist reading of AT. I argue that the specific
A. Meincke
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Autopoiesis and the origin of bacteria

Advances in Space Research, 1986
"Autopoiesis" is the explanatory principle for the organization of living systems, a concept directly applicable to the problematic issues surrounding the origins of life. Because it provides criteria by which a system may be judged as living, autopoiesis can be used to characterize a minimal living system. Once these defining characteristics have been
Fleischaker, G.R., Margulis, Lynn
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Deriving the bodily grounding of living beings with molecular autopoiesis

Adaptive Behavior, 2019
“Are living beings extended autopoietic systems? An embodied reply,” makes the case for grounding the autopoietic definition of living beings to the discrete bodies of organisms rather than to autopoietic systems that extend beyond the organisms into ...
E. Agmon
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Autopoiesi

2006
L’articolo mette in evidenza l’importanza dell’idea di autopoiesi nella tradizione di ricerca interdisciplinare sulle idee di autoorganizzazione e di autonomia, specifica le sue relazioni con gli sviluppi del pensiero biologico e pone le condizione di possibilità per una sua utilizzazione sul piano sociale.
BOCCHI, Gianluca, CERUTI, Mauro
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On Autopoiesis

Inference: International Review of Science, 2018
Autopoiesis points to the basic hows underlying the homeostatic far-from-equilibrium states internal to the physiological organism that allow it to persist as a whole in the face of entropy.
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The 'Truth' about Autopoiesis

Journal of Law and Society, 1993
Like the economy and the royal family, autopoiesis has been receiving some bad publicity recently in Britain. What are we to make of a theory which apparently sees the legal system as firmly closed to all external influences' and which refuses even to accept the obvious fact that 'people make decisions'2?
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Autopoiesis/Mimesis

ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 art gallery, 2007
Maja Cerar, Liubo Borissov
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Autopoiesis: a review and a reappraisal

Naturwissenschaften, 2003
The aim of the paper is to review critically the notion of autopoiesis as presented by Maturana and Varela. In particular, recognizing that there are difficulties in obtaining a complete and clear picture from the primary literature, an effort is made to present a coherent view-also based on many years of personal contact with Francisco Varela.
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Remarks on Autocatalysis and Autopoiesis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2000
Abstract: The notions of collective autocatalysis and of autopoiesis are clearly related; equally clearly, they are not quite the same. The purpose of this paper is to try to clarify the relationship. Specifically I suggest that autopoiesis can be at least roughly characterized as collective autocatalysis plus spatial individuation.
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Characterizing Autopoiesis in the Game of Life

Artificial Life, 2015
Maturana and Varela's concept of autopoiesis defines the essential organization of living systems and serves as a foundation for their biology of cognition and the enactive approach to cognitive science. As an initial step toward a more formal analysis of autopoiesis, this article investigates its application to the compact, recurrent spatiotemporal ...
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