...is designed to provide you some general context regarding how autopoietic theory originated, how it developed, and where it stands now. Autopoietic theory is the term I use to denote the work of Chilean biologists Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela (originally labeled the biology of cognition). Background: Biology of Cognition / Autopoietic Theory This initial section is designed to orient you in preparation for the remainder of the Tutorial. • It will present some of the key observations and issues which led to the creation of the biology of cognition / autopoietic theory. • These in turn describe some important aspects of the perspective from which this work has proceeded. • This section ends with a very brief description of the theory's merits and the fields within which it has been applied to date. • You can then proceed to an introduction to the theory itself. There is an essential circularity in living systems. Living systems exhibit a sort of circularity in their form and structure. This is evident when we examine the way organisms are constituted by their components. These components are

Abstract. In Niklas Luhmann’s social theory, autopoiesis is the repeated work of human self-construction through which social and cultural forms are maintained against a background of their continuous dissolution and disappearance. Autopoiesis in this sense is the production and reproduc

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Abstract: An interpretive and constructive understanding of information can be developed by drawing on a number of premises of autopoiesis in combination with Spencer-Brown’s laws of form. Such understanding views information as self-referential meaning construction by observing an object

This paper discusses how John Dewey's logic in his theory of inquiry can inform and perhaps guide efforts to re-form education and to allow the creative forces of emergence to affect and create adaptive social systems as learning organizations. The paper contends that Dewey's naturalistic

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This text will attempt to delineate the underlying theoretical premises and the definition of the output of an immersive learning approach pertaining to the visual arts to be implemented in online, three dimensional synthetic worlds. Deviating from the prevalent practice of the replication

COVER: ‘The Coincidence of Opposites ’ showing the festivals of Samhain (Hallowe’en) and Yule (Winter Solstice) for the Southern Hemisphere, with the position of the South at the top (see page

Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Philosophy in the