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getting a grip on autopoiesis

Posted by: krisdoublek on: September 2, 2008

Not knowing where to start… I decided to get a better understanding of this very interesting term that Petra said last week: autopoiesis.
I looked up ‘poiesis’ and this is the definition that I thought put it in simple enough terms:
Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, [...]