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Autopoiesis and Socialization: on Luhmann’s reconceptualization of Communication and Socialization
In 1984, Niklas Luhmann published Soziale Systeme in which he applies the idea of autopoiesis (self-production) to social systems. Abstracted from its biological connotations, the concept of autopoiesis leads to a sharp distinction between different kinds of autopoietic organization, i.e. … Continue reading
Humberto Maturana’s view on the theory of evolution. From autopoiesis to natural drift metaphor
Today in the scientific circle Humberto Maturana is considered the creator of the so-called Santiago School of Biology (also known as Biology of Cognition). Biology of Cognition is a research program seeking an explanation of the phenomenon of cognitive functions … Continue reading
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A cuarenta años de la Autopoiesis
El alcance de éste se estudia en medicina, educación, f ilosof ía y psicología cognitiva. Maturana partió con la biología molecular, pasó al sistema nervioso y luego siguió con la biología del conocimiento y el lenguaje. Hoy, afirma que los … Continue reading
Beyond autopoiesis: Inflections of emergence and politics in the work of Francisco Varela
Francisco Varela’s work is a monumental achievement in 20th century biological and biophilosophical thought. After his early collaboration in neo-cybernetics with Humberto Maturana (“autopoiesis”), Varela made fundamental contributions to immunology (“network theory”), Artificial Life (“cellular automata”), cognitive science (“enaction”), philosophy … Continue reading
Autopoiesis and Cognition
This article revisits the concept of autopoiesis and examines its relation to cognition and life. We present a mathematical model of a 3D tesselation automaton, considered as a minimal example of autopoiesis. This leads us to a thesis T1: “An … Continue reading
Autopoietic Law: A New Approach To Law And Society
The present debate in legal theory is dominated by an unfruitful schism. On the one hand, analytical theories are concerned with the positivity of law, running the risk of missing the law’s relation to society. On the other hand, sociological … Continue reading
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Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, consider them as concrete … Continue reading
De Maquinas y Seres Vivos
Humberto Maturana y Francisco Varela – ¿Cuál es la organización de los sistemas vivientes, qué clase de máquinas son ellos y cómo su fenomenología, incluidas la reproducción y la evolución, queda determinada por su organización? Es trivialmente obvio que, si … Continue reading
Autopoiesis, Culture, and Society
The concept of autopoiesis has long surpassed the realm of biology. It has been used in areas so diverse as sociology, psychotherapy, management, anthropology, organizational culture, and many others. This circumstance transformed it in a very important and useful instrument … Continue reading
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