Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living

Maturana and Varela's book on autopoiesis and cognition. The companion cites it, with Montévil and Mossio, for the organizational closure of biological metabolism, in which an organism produces the components that produce it. It is a caution on the analogy: agent metabolism lacks this closure, since no swarmlet makes its own compute, energy, or hardware (P2).

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §3)

Used for

P2Metabolism (limits of analogy); P2

Strand

Origins of life & metabolism · Origin & definition of life, autonomy

Cite

@book{maturana1980autopoiesis,
  title = {Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living},
  author = {Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela},
  year = {1980},
  publisher = {D. Reidel (Dordrecht)},
  doi = {10.1007/978-94-009-8947-4},
}