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Autopoetic Books === Autopoesis === The term was introduced in 1972 by Chilean biologists [[Humberto Maturana]] and [[Francisco Varela]]: {{quotation|An autopoietic machine is a machine organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production (transformation and destruction) of components which: (i) through their interactions and transformations continuously regenerate and realize the network of processes (relations) that produced them; and (ii) constitute it (the machine) as a concrete unity in space in which they (the components) exist by specifying the topological domain of its realization as such a network.<ref>Maturana, Varela, 1980, p. 78</ref>{{-}} [...] the space defined by an autopoietic system is self-contained and cannot be described by using dimensions that define another space. When we refer to our interactions with a concrete autopoietic system, however, we project this system on the space of our manipulations and make a description of this projection.<ref>Maturana, Varela, 1980, p. 89</ref>}}
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