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Autonomy

Definition
Self-control, Self-guidance

The conditon of subordinating all changes to the maintenance of the organization.

Selfasserting capacity of living systems to maintain their identity through the active compensation of deformations.

The existence of an organizationally closed set of rules being also provided for, allows for the autonomous existence of the system.

Relations:
self-control
self-determination
Self-guidance
Self-organization
self-regulation

 

Articles:

1997
About the Possible Convergence between Science and Spirituality / Eric Schwarz. - vol 4 no. 4
Communication: Conversation 1 / Ranulph Glanville. - vol 4 no. 1
Toward a Holistic Cybernetics: From Science through Epistemology to being / Eric Schwarz. -  vol. 4 no. 1

Definitions:

Principia Cybernetica
Encyclopedia Autopoietica
International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics

 

Principia Cybernetica (web)
The conditon of subordinating all changes to the maintenance of the organization.

Selfasserting capacity of living systems to maintain their identity through the active compensation of deformations

Encyclopedia Autopoietica
The condition of subordinating all changes to the maintenance of the organization. Selfasserting capacity of living systems to maintain their identity through the active compensation of deformations

Systems defined by organizational closure and self-control,selfguidance

International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics
The capacity of a system to select and decide within limits its own behaviour.

The relative possibility of the system to control its relations with its environment.

The existence of an organizationally closed set of rules being also provided for, allows for the autonomous existence of the system.