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Mechanical phenomenology

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Principia Cybernetica
Encyclopedia Autopoietica

Principia Cybernetica (web)
the phenomenology generated by relations between processes realized through the properties of components. (Maturana and Varela, 1979)

 

Encyclopedia Autopoietica
"The phenomenology generated by relations between processes realized through the properties of components." (Maturana & Varela, 1980, p. 137) One of the two major classes of explanatory phenomenologies (the other being statical phenomenology) (Maturana & Varela, 1980, pp. 112 ff.). Mechanical phenomenology subsumes the biological phenomenology which specifically pertains to autopoietic living systems.

Cf. machine, mechanicism, biological phenomenology, statical phenomenology.

International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics