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AUTOPOIESIS
the process whereby an organization produces
itself. An autopoietic organization is an autonomous and
self-maintaining unity which contains component-producing
processes. The components, through their interaction, generate
recursively the same network of processes which produced them.
An autopoietic system is operationally closed and structurally
state determined with no apparent inputs and outputs. A cell, an
organism, and perhaps a corporation are examples of autopoietic
systems. See allopoiesis. (F. Varela)
Literally, self-production. The property of systems whose components (1) participate recursively in the same network of productions that produced them, and (2) realize the network of productions as a unity in the space in which the components exist (after Varela) (see recursion). Autopoiesis is a process whereby a system produces its own organization and maintains and constitutes itself in a space. E.g., a biological cell, a living organism and to some extend a corporation and a society as a whole. (krippendorff)
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