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Organizational Closure: Why Living Systems Are Circular

Organizational closure: the pattern that makes autopoiesis possible. Living systems operate in circles where every process connects back to itself through other processes. Organizational closure means the network of processes that define a system form a closed loop. Each process depends on other processes in… 

Autopoiesis: What Self Creation Means

Autopoiesis: self creation. The word explains what makes something alive versus not alive. Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela discovered this pattern in the 1970s. Autopoiesis means a system that produces and maintains itself through its own processes. A living cell: produces proteins that…