autopoiesis

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Etymology [edit]

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

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autopoiesis (uncountable)

  1. Self creation; self organization.

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