Autopoiesis of Psychoanalytic Subject

Who Am I? The Self/Subject According to Psychoanalytic Theory

Organizational Autopoiesis and Knowledge Management Organizational Autopoiesis and Knowledge Management

This paper presents a biological view of knowledge and organizations formulated to provide a framework for understanding organizational knowledge and organizational knowledge management systems. This framework extends ideas based Karl Popper's (1972) epistemology of objective knowledge; Maturana and Varela's (1980, 1987) ideas of autopoiesis as extended to organizations by von Krogh and Roos (1...

Rediscovering Computational Autopoiesis

This paper summarises some initial empirical results from a new computer model (arti cial chemistry) which exhibits spontaneous emergence and persistence of autopoietic organisation. The model is based on a system originally presented by Varela, Maturana and Uribe [8]. In carrying out this re-implementation it was found that an additional interaction (chain-based bond inhibition), not documente...

Meta - theoretical Presuppositions for Autopoiesis – Self - Reference and " Autopoiesis " INTRODUCTORY

Locker's writing is complex, flowery, and often singularly poetic. The reader is invited to read Locker's last paragraph in order to appreciate the editor's task. Yet, I have interfered only minimally because Professor Locker's underlying ideas and reasoning are highly original and a price must be paid for understanding them – by the reader and the author equally. Locker turns our attention to ...

Autopoiesis and Cognition

This article revisits the concept of autopoiesis and examines its relation to cognition and life. We present a mathematical model of a 3D tesselation automaton, considered as a minimal example of autopoiesis. This leads us to a thesis T1: "An autopoietic system can be described as a random dynamical system, which is defined only within its organized autopoietic domain." We propose a modified de...