Autopoiesis
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"Hegel is – to use today's terms – the ultimate thinker of autopoiesis, of the process of the emergence of necessary features out of chaotic contingency, the thinker of contingency's gradual self-organisation, of the gradual rise of order out of chaos."--Less Than Nothing (2012) by Slavoj Žižek |
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Autopoiesis literally means "self-creation" and expresses a fundamental dialectic between structure, mechanism and function. The term was introduced in 1972 by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela.
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See also
- Self-organization
- Systems theory
- Dissipative system
- Dynamical system
- Relational order theories
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- Loschmidt's paradox
- Polytely
- Robert Rosen
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