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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

autopoietic en · ADJ

Etymology

From auto- + -poietic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or created by autopoiesis.
    • If living systems are machines, that they are physical autopoietic machines is trivially obvious: they transform matter into themselves in a manner such that the product of their operation is their own organization. 1980 [1973], Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, “On Machines, Living and Otherwise”, in Autopoiesis and Cognition, D. Reidel, page 82:

Translations (2)

de autopoietisch (pertaining to, or created by autopoiesis) · pt autopoiético (pertaining to, or created by autopoiesis)