Complexity and Organization–Environment Relations: Revisiting Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety
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Requisite variety, autopoiesis, and self-organization
Ashby’s law of requisite variety states that a controller must have at least as much variety (complexity) as the controlled. Maturana and Varela proposed autopoiesis (self-production) to define living systems. Living systems also require to fulfill the law of requisite variety. A measure of autopoiesis has been proposed as the ratio between the complexity of a system and the complexity of its e...
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