Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

by H.R.Maturana (Author), F . J . Varela (Author)

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  1991

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  , by an observer, already seems to violate the fundamental requirement which Maturana and Varela posit for the characterization of such system- namely, that they are autonomous, self-referring and self-constructing closed systems - in short, autopoietic systems in their terms.