Autopoiesis Varela Maturana Uribe
F. J. Varela, H. Maturana, and R. Uribe Autopoiesis: The organization of living systems, its characterization and a model BioSystems, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 187 196, 1974. F. J. Varela The early days of autopoiesis: Heinz and Chile Systems Research, vol. 13, pp. 407 416, 1996. F. J. Varela Patterns of life: intertwining identity and cognition Brain and cognition, vol. 34, pp. 72 87, 1997. 2
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There are no personal creations without a context: that an idea has impact is an historical fact and not a personal adventure or a question of being right. [2] image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/82431121@n00/143621045 6
Early Days Humberto Maturana: the first pillar image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/file:maturana.jpg 7
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Early Days Heinz von Foerster the second pillar image source: http://bcl.ece.illinois.edu/hutchinson 9
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The Cambridge years were for me the discovery of my involvement as a member of society and the possibility of taking responsibility for changes in my social surroundings. [2] image source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/ 12533165@N05/1346587090/sizes/l/in/photostream/ image credit: Jean-Pierre Rey; May 1968
Image Source: John Paul Filo journalism student at Kent State http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:kent_state_massacre.jpg
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Phenomenology... the one slide introduction Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty contextual experiences being-in-the-world Really, you should read more of the works of these philosophers to get a better feel and introduction... 16
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Autopoiesis αὐτoποίησις autopoiesis self creation / production 18
Autopoiesis... autopoiesis attempts to capture the mechanism or process that generates the identity of the living and thus to serve as a categorical distinction of living from nonliving, not more not less. [3] 19
Autopoiesis basic definition A network of processes of production of components such that these components: (i) continuously regenerate and realize the network that produces them (ii) constitute a distinguishable unity in its domain 20
Autopoiesis matter, energy, flow permits the bounded dynamics of basic definition Membrane Boundaries Metabolic Network produces the metabolites that constitute 21
Autopoiesis Is this a minimal case for the living? What about reproduction? 22
The 1974 Model Substrate Catalyst Link Bonded Links 23
The 1974 Model Composition Bonding Disintegration Interaction Rules 24
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Six Point Key 1. Identifiable Boundaries? 29
Six Point Key 2. Describable unity components? 30
Six Point Key 3. Mechanistic System? Allopoietic and Autopoietic 31
Six Point Key 4. Boundary Relations. Preferential neighborhood, self interaction. 32
Six Point Key 5. Boundary component production. Produced by unity, or enter through boundary? 33
Six Point Key 6. Source of component production. Internal and Participatory. 34
Cognition 35
Cognition 36
Cognition perturbations modulates the dynamics of Sensorimotor Coupling Interneuron network effects generates neuronal ensembles underlying 37
Cognitive Self Patterns of Life Neurocognitive identity Emergent distributed process Situated Cognition 38
Cognitive Self Patterns of Life Like jazz improvisation, environment provides the excuse for the neural music from the perspective of the cognitive system involved. [3] 39
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References [1] F. J. Varela, H. Maturana, and R. Uribe, "Autopoiesis: The organization of living systems, its characterization and a model," BioSystems, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 187 196, 1974. [2] F. J. Varela, "The early days of autopoiesis: Heinz and Chile," Systems Research, vol. 13, pp. 407 416, 1996. [3] F. J. Varela, "Patterns of life: intertwining identity and cognition," Brain and cognition, vol. 34, pp. 72 87, 1997. [4] A. Bowie, German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 1 153. [5] T. Winograd and Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition: A new Foundation for Design. Addison-Wesley, 1987. [6] R. D. Beer, "Autopoiesis and Cognition in the Game of Life," Artificial Life, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 309 326, Jun. 2004. 41