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Quotes from Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living — Francisco Varela

1946–2001 Chile

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The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living (1980)

By autopoietic organization, Maturana and Varela meant the] processes interlaced in the specific form of a network of productions of components which realizing the network that produced them constitutes it as a unity.

Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Francisco Varela (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.