Autopoiesis
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The concept of autopoiesis depicts a living system as an autonomously self-fabricating and self-organizing unit within its physical boundary, generating and continually regenerating its own components, thereby maintaining the molecular and supramolecular hierarchy of interacting networks that self-assemble, self-organize and self-perpetuate the system.[1]
References
- ↑ Luisi PL. (2003) Autopoiesis: a review and a reappraisal. Naturwissenschaften 90:49-59.
- From the Abstract: The basic principles of autopoiesis as a theory of cellular life are then described, emphasizing also what autopoiesis is not: not an abstract theory, not a concept of artificial life, not a theory about the origin of life-but rather a pragmatic blueprint of life based on cellular life. It shown how this view leads to a conceptually clear definition of minimal life and to a logical link with related notions, such as self-organization, emergence, biological autonomy, auto-referentiality, and interactions with the environment.