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Structural Coupling: How Systems Connect Without Merging

Structural coupling: how two autonomous systems interact repeatedly without losing their autonomy. The mechanism that allows connection without merger. Structural coupling occurs when two autopoietic systems interact recurrently. Each interaction triggers structural changes in both systems. The changes maintain autopoiesis in both systems while creating… 

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…