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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or created by autopoiesis

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auto- + -poietic

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Examples

  • If everyone is aware of the system’s behavior it could become autopoietic, that is, self-creating.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • If everyone is aware of the system’s behavior it could become autopoietic, that is, self-creating.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Margulis & Son again: "Without autopoietic behavior, organic beings do not self-maintain - they are not alive."

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychological Self-Maintenance Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

  • Any psychologically-autopoietic identity-detox method would do!

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychological Self-Maintenance Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

  • "Without autopoietic behavior, organic beings do not self-maintain - they are not alive."

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychological Self-Maintenance Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

  • To follow the milestone efforts of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis who coined the term "Gaia", a self-regulating, autopoietic system, a giant ecosystem, comprised of millions of smaller ecosystems and on downward to the cells and tiny particles that make up this Earth and vast universe alike.

    MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research 2008

  • Any psychologically-autopoietic identity-detox method would do!

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychological Self-Maintenance Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

  • He explained how two different kinds of power structures, autopoietic (self-generating), and hierarchical will be increasingly coming into conflict because of their radically contrasting operating procedures.

    Dan Gould: Mark Pesce: The Dangerous Power of Sharing (Power) 2009

  • Or, we can pick up a word coined by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to describe self-producing systems, and say that technology is autopoietic “self-creating,” or “self-bringing-forth,” in Greek.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • Later I came upon the work of Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana on self-producing systems, and I could tell people impressively that technology was autopoietic or self-creating.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

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