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Principia Cybernetica
Encyclopedia Autopoietica
International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics

 

Principia Cybernetica (web)
a consensual domain in which the coupled organisms orient each other in their internally determined behavior through

interactions that have been specified during their coupled ontogenies. (Maturana and Varela, 1979)

Encyclopedia Autopoietica
A "... consensual domain of communicative interactions in which the behaviorally coupled organisms orient each other with modes of behavior whose internal determination has become specified during their coupled ontogenies." (Maturana & Varela, 1980, p. 120)

A "... consensual domain in which the coupled organisms orient each other in their internally determined behavior through interactions that have been specified during their coupled ontogenies." (Maturana & Varela, 1980, p. 136)

Of an organism: "...the domain of all its linguistic behaviors." (Maturana & Varela, 1992, p. 209)

Cf. consensual domain, linguistic.

International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics
no def.