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From cognitivism to autopoiesis: towards a computational framework for the embodied mind
Synthese, 2016 Predictive processing (PP) approaches to the mind are increasingly popular in the cognitive sciences. This surge of interest is accompanied by a proliferation of philosophical arguments, which seek to either extend or oppose various aspects of the ...
Micah G. Allen, Karl J. Friston
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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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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Feeling Virtue: An Enactive Theory of Approval
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A neo‐sentimentalist theory of virtue holds that a trait is virtue if, and only if, it merits approval. Neo‐sentimentalists tend to be sceptical about the prospect of such a theory because it seems unlikely that feelings of approval can be characterised without reference to the notion of virtue. I argue that that scepticism is uncalled for. My
Rafael Graebin Vogelmann
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Autopoiesis in Virtual Organizations [PDF]
Informatică economică, 2008 Virtual organizations continuously gain popularity because of the benefits created by them. Generally, they are defined as temporal adhocracies, project oriented, knowledge-based network organizations.
Malgorzata PAMKOWSKA
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Enfoques, 2017 Este trabajo es parte de un proyecto de investigación cualitativa denominado “Las concepciones del poder y su incidencia en los procesos de cambio organizativos” desarrollado en el área de Aprendizaje y Desarrollo Organizacional del Instituto Rosario de
Claudia Liliana Perlo
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Morphogenesis in Complex Adaptive Sociocultural Systems: Before and After Archer
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Margaret Archer's widely cited work on the structure/agency problem draws upon the concept of ‘morphogenesis’, which she borrows (with full acknowledgement) from Walter Buckley's theory of complex adaptive sociocultural systems. In this paper, I revisit Buckley's original formulation and argue that it is both different from and better than ...
Nick Crossley
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Procesi avtopoieze: kvalitativni pristop za obvladovanje organizacije v temeljnih procesih [PDF]
Izzivi Prihodnosti, 2018 Research Question (RQ):We ask ourselves, which processes of autopoiesis are connected with the basic processes of organization? Purpose:The basic purpose of research is to find the connection between the basic processes of ...
Tanja Balažic Peček, Franc Brcar
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Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model.
Currents in modern biology, 1974 Notwithstanding their diversity, all living systems must share a common organization which we implicitly recognize calling them “living.” At present there is no formulation of this organization, mainly because the great developments of molecular, genetic
F. G. Varela, H. Maturana, R. Uribe
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Alignment of the Starlings: Learning With Generative AI
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT I will argue that answers to normative questions concerning the place of generative AI in learning rest on answers to ontological questions regarding (1) precisely what is happening when a human ‘interacts’ with generative AI and (2) What is distinctive about organic learning as opposed to currently existing ‘machine learning’ (3) What is the ...
Sean Watson
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