autopoetic system

big bang

consciousness

life

explosion

is the minimal living organization that continually produces the components that specify it (thus re-producing itself) and that separates itself off as a distinguishable unity.

An autopoietic system -the minimal iving organization -is one that continuously produces the components that specify it, while at the same time realizing it (the system) as a concrete unity in space and time, which makes the network of production of components possible..' 'more precisely defined, an autopoietic system is organized (defined as unity) as a network of processes of production (synthesis and destruction) of components such that these components: (i) continuously regenerate and realize the network that produces them and(ii) constitute the system as a distinguishable unity in the domain in which they exist (Varela 'Autopoiesis and a Biology of Intentionality' talk on NET)

autopoetic system, n.Definitions

autopoetic system