Autopoiesis and Cognition¶
Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (1980). Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science.
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- Autonomy
- In biology, autonomic regulation, cellular self-organization, and self-production are the biological forms, with the self-producing system the limiting case.
This sourceDevelops autopoiesis — self-production — as the limiting biological case of a self-governing, self-maintaining system.
- In biology, autonomic regulation, cellular self-organization, and self-production are the biological forms, with the self-producing system the limiting case.
- Autopoiesis
- … is autopoietic; the distinguishing property is self-production of the components themselves) — across these, the shared pattern is operational closure with structural openness: the system is closed for its self-producing dynamics while being open for energy, matter, or information exchange with the environment.
This sourceD. Reidel. English edition collecting De Máquinas y Seres Vivos (1972) and "Biology of Cognition" (1970) — the foundational definition of autopoiesis as a network of component-producing processes whose interactions regenerate the network and constitute the system as a unity
- … is autopoietic; the distinguishing property is self-production of the components themselves) — across these, the shared pattern is operational closure with structural openness: the system is closed for its self-producing dynamics while being open for energy, matter, or information exchange with the environment.
- Closure
- An autarky is an economy closed under the production-and-consumption operations (every input required for production is produced internally; every output is consumed internally), and the impossibility of literal autarky in modern industrial economies is part of the standard introductory lesson on comparative advantage and trade — a closure property Maturana and Varela (1980) generalise to living systems under the rubric of autopoiesis.
This sourceD. Reidel. English edition collecting De Máquinas y Seres Vivos (1972) and 'Biology of Cognition' (1970); foundational definition of autopoiesis as a network of component-producing processes that regenerate the network and constitute the system as a self-contained unity.
- An autarky is an economy closed under the production-and-consumption operations (every input required for production is produced internally; every output is consumed internally), and the impossibility of literal autarky in modern industrial economies is part of the standard introductory lesson on comparative advantage and trade — a closure property Maturana and Varela (1980) generalise to living systems under the rubric of autopoiesis.
- Constructivist Learning
- Success is measured not by fidelity to an external standard but by the viability of the learner's model for solving novel problems and making sense of new phenomena, and by the learner's growing capacity for self-directed inquiry—a stance Maturana and Varela (1980) ground biologically in Autopoiesis and Cognition, where cognition is reframed as the maintenance of a viable organism-environment coupling rather than the mirroring of an external reality.
This sourceD. Reidel. Reframes cognition as the maintenance of a viable organism–environment coupling rather than the mirroring of an external reality (supports the coupling/viability half of D48-050; see flag).
- Success is measured not by fidelity to an external standard but by the viability of the learner's model for solving novel problems and making sense of new phenomena, and by the learner's growing capacity for self-directed inquiry—a stance Maturana and Varela (1980) ground biologically in Autopoiesis and Cognition, where cognition is reframed as the maintenance of a viable organism-environment coupling rather than the mirroring of an external reality.
- Environmental Coupling Strength
- The distinction is topological: coupling is internal architecture; environmental coupling strength is boundary permeability—a separation Maturana and Varela (1980) made central to their account of structural coupling between an autopoietic system and its medium.
This sourceD. Reidel. Foundational definition of autopoiesis and of structural coupling between an autopoietic system and its medium/environment. SUPPORTS marker 185 (structural coupling between an autopoietic system and its medium; coupling as boundary permeability vs internal architecture).
- The distinction is topological: coupling is internal architecture; environmental coupling strength is boundary permeability—a separation Maturana and Varela (1980) made central to their account of structural coupling between an autopoietic system and its medium.
- Second-Order Cybernetics (Second-Order Observation)
- … where researchers shape their subjects; family therapy where therapists shape the family system they study; organizational consulting where consultants are part of organizational dynamics; autopoiesis and cognition where living systems are their own observers (Maturana and Varela's Autopoiesis and Cognition 1980
This sourceD. Reidel. English edition collecting De Máquinas y Seres Vivos (1972) and "Biology of Cognition" (1970); foundational definition of autopoiesis as a network of component-producing processes whose interactions regenerate the network and constitute the system as a unity in space.
- … where researchers shape their subjects; family therapy where therapists shape the family system they study; organizational consulting where consultants are part of organizational dynamics; autopoiesis and cognition where living systems are their own observers (Maturana and Varela's Autopoiesis and Cognition 1980
- Self-Organization
- Maturana and Varela (1980) introduced autopoiesis: self-organizing systems that reproduce themselves through circular causal organization, defining living systems and providing metaphor for cognitive and social closure
This sourceD. Reidel. English edition collecting De Máquinas y Seres Vivos (1972) and "Biology of Cognition" (1970); foundational definition of autopoiesis as a network of component-producing processes whose interactions regenerate the network and constitute the system as a unity in space.
- Maturana and Varela (1980) introduced autopoiesis: self-organizing systems that reproduce themselves through circular causal organization, defining living systems and providing metaphor for cognitive and social closure
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