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=== Autopoesis ===
The term was introduced in 1972 by Chilean biologists [[Humberto Maturana]] and [[Francisco Varela]]:
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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>
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[...] 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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=== Generation ===
* Structure
* Rules
* Printing a book from CSS [http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom]
* apache xml->graphics group [http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/]
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=== Open Source Workflows + Toolsets ===
http://www.grassbook.org/neteler/highres_pdf.html