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Autopoietic System

Definition
A unity realized through a closed organization of production processes such that
  1. the same organications of processes is generated through the interaction of their own products (components) and
  2. a topological boundary emerges as a result of the same constitutive process

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Encyclopedia Autopoietica
International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics

 

Principia Cybernetica (web)

Encyclopedia Autopoietica
a machine/system which is a member of the class of autonomous systems and which meets the requirement of being organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production,transformation and destruction of components that produces the components which:
  1. through their interactions and transformations regenerate and realize the network of processes (relations) that produced them; and
  2. constitute it as a concrete unity in the space in which they exist by specifying the topological domain of its realization as such a network

 

International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics
A unity realized through a closed organization of production processes such that
  1. the same organications of processes is generated through the interaction of their own products (components) and
  2. a topological boundary emerges as a result of the same constitutive process