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Autopoiesis, biological autonomy and the process view of life [PDF]
European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2018 In recent years, an increasing number of theoretical biologists and philosophers of biology have been opposing reductionist research agendas by appealing to the concept of biological autonomy which draws on the older concept of autopoiesis.
A. Meincke
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Evolution, reproduction and autopoiesis [PDF]
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 The term autopoiesis was coined to describe the regenerating and self-maintaining chemical systems of cells. The term has subsequently been applied to many different fields, including sociology, systems theory and information systems.
Francois Durand
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Social Science Research NetworkThis article explores the concept of autopoiesis and its application to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Autopoiesis describes the self-producing and self-maintaining characteristics of living systems, a concept that has been applied in ...
F. Santoro
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Novum, 2013 Este documento pretende hacer un análisis de la noción de sujeto Autopoiético y de algunas características que priman en su construcción individual, la autorregulación, el autocontrol y el autoconocimiento, partiendo del concepto de ...
Sandra Liliana Daza Cuartas
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Social Regulation of Organizational Communications in the Context of N. Luhmann's Autopoiesis Theory
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2011 In the article based on the analysis of N. Luhmann' theory of autopoiesis, theoretical and practical aspects of social regulation of communications in a certain organization are described.
E G Vishnevetskiy
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Autocatalysis, Autopoiesis, and the Opportunity Cost of Individuality. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)Ever since Varela and Maturana proposed the concept of autopoiesis as the minimal requirement for life, there has been a focus on cellular systems that erect topological boundaries to separate themselves from their surrounding environment.
Kliska N, Nehaniv CL.
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From autopoiesis to self-optimization: Toward an enactive model of biological regulation
bioRxiv, 2023 The theory of autopoiesis has been influential in many areas of theoretical biology, especially in the fields of artificial life and origins of life.
Tom Froese +3 more
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Modeling autopoiesis and cognition with reaction networks
Biosyst., 2023 Maturana and Varela defined an autopoietic system as a self-regenerating network of processes. We reinterpret and elaborate this conception starting from a process ontology and its formalization in terms of reaction networks and chemical organization ...
F. Heylighen, Evo Busseniers
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Autopoiesis of the artificial: from systems to cognition
Biosyst., 2023 In the seminal work on autopoiesis by Varela, Maturana, and Uribe, they start by addressing the confusion between processes that are history dependent and processes that are history independent in the biological world.
Francesco Bianchini
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Nested Selves: Self‐Organization and Shared Markov Blankets in Prenatal Development in Humans
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The immune system is a central component of organismic function in humans. This paper addresses self‐organization of biological systems in relation to—and nested within—other biological systems in pregnancy. Pregnancy constitutes a fundamental state for human embodiment and a key step in the evolution and conservation of our species. While not
Anna Ciaunica +3 more
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