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  • noun Self creation; self organization.

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From Ancient Greek αὐτόποιος (autopoios, "self-produced"), coined c. 1972 by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela

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  • "auto (self)-creation" coined by Humberto Maturana

    June 18, 2008

  • A system engaged in autopoiesis

    Replenishes loss but never increases.

    Is it fated to go

    Forever on so,

    Or comes there a time when it ceases?

    November 14, 2016