autopoiesis

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Definition of autopoiesis in English English dictionary

Self creation; self organization

Autopoiesis is the system that makes living beings autonomous systems

The tendency of nature to be autopoietic addresses one of life's mysteries - how we create and recreate ourselves as independent entities with unique identities It makes us resistant to change because we reject anything that we do not recognise as us It enables our bodies to reject viruses and our minds to reject ideas that are seen as a threat

Self-reproduction or self-maintenance The ability to maintain a form despite a flow of material occurring A non-equilibrium system, typically life or similar processes but also including natural phenomena like Jupiter's Red Spot

{i} process by which an organism or organization produces itself by repeating the reproduction process and constantly recreating itself (such as cells or organisms)

  Grk 'self-making'; "network of production processes in which the function of each component is to participate in the production and transformation of other components "***

Etymology

() From Ancient Greek αὐτόποιος (autopoios, “self-produced”), coined c. 1972 by Francisco Varela