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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or created by
autopoiesis
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Examples
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If everyone is aware of the system’s behavior it could become autopoietic, that is, self-creating.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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If everyone is aware of the system’s behavior it could become autopoietic, that is, self-creating.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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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
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Any psychologically-autopoietic identity-detox method would do!
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychological Self-Maintenance Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010
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"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
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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.
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Any psychologically-autopoietic identity-detox method would do!
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychological Self-Maintenance Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010
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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
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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
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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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