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Autonomy and Autopoiesis
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Author: Francisco J. Varela Source: https://mechanism.ucsd.edu/bill/teaching/w22/phil147/Varela%20-%201981%20-%20Autonomy%20and%20Autopoiesis.pdf Date: 1981
Capture note: the canonical PDF is a ten-page image-only scan with no machine-readable text layer. The scan was read visually for the adjacent ingest. Printed pages map one-to-one to PDF pages as follows: printed 14 = PDF 1, continuing through printed 23 = PDF 10. The source images remain available at the canonical URL above; this snapshot does not claim to be a full transcription.
Source structure
- Printed p. 14 / PDF p. 1: Introduction
- Printed pp. 15–18 / PDF pp. 2–5: The Idea of Autonomy
- Printed pp. 18–21 / PDF pp. 5–8: Three Examples of Autonomous Systems
- Printed pp. 21–22 / PDF pp. 8–9: Formalization
- Printed pp. 22–23 / PDF pp. 9–10: Autonomy and Cognition; References