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English
Etymology
From auto- + poietic.
Adjective
autopoietic (comparative more autopoietic, superlative most autopoietic)
- Of, pertaining to, or created by autopoiesis.
1980 [1973], Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, “On Machines, Living and Otherwise”, in Autopoiesis and Cognition, D. Reidel, page 82:If living systems are machines, that they are physical autopoietic machines is trivially obvious: they transform matter into themselves in a manner such that the product of their operation is their own organization.
Translations
pertaining to, or created by autopoiesis