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Mixbiotic society measures: Assessment of community well-going as living system. [PDF]

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Kato T   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Processes of Territorial Transformation: Autopoietic Systems in Planning and the Theory of Chaos [PDF]

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Battista Masia, Giovanni   +4 more
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Autopoiesis and Cognition

Artificial Life, 2004
This article revisits the concept of autopoiesis and examines its relation to cognition and life. We present a mathematical model of a 3D tesselation automaton, considered as a minimal example of autopoiesis. This leads us to a thesis T1: “An autopoietic system can be described as a random dynamical system, which is defined only within its organized ...
Bourgine, P., Stewart, J.
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Autopoiesis and Darwinism

Synthese, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to offer a critical approach to the theory of autopoiesis in order to see how it challenges mainstream Darwinism. In the first part of the paper, I characterize Darwinism from the concepts of natural selection, heredity, reproduction, and evolution. This characterization is absolutely schematic, and I hope not controversial
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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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