¿Qué es autopoiesis?
- Author
- R. y Ramos-Jiliberto, P. Razeto-Barry
- Year
- 2013
- Type
- book chapter
- Category
- Bibliografía citada
This book chapter explains the concept of autopoiesis, the idea that a living being is a system that continuously produces and regenerates its own components, following the original definition developed by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. It defends a specific reading of autopoiesis centered on how such a system maintains its own individual identity over time.
"¿Qué es autopoiesis?" is a chapter by Pablo Razeto-Barry and Pablo Ramos-Jiliberto in the book Autopoiesis: Un Concepto Vivo, published in November 2013 by Editorial Universitas Nueva Civilización in Santiago, Chile. The chapter explains the concept of autopoiesis as originally developed by the Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela in their work De Máquinas y Seres Vivos, where a living being is defined, from a biological standpoint, as an autopoietic system, one capable of continuously producing and regenerating its own components. The chapter defends a specific reading of autopoiesis grounded in Maturana and Varela's original definition and project, emphasizing that the concept centers on how a system maintains its own individual, or numerical, identity over time. The broader book, marking forty years since the concept's creation, develops contemporary discussions of autopoiesis across five dimensions: life, knowledge, evolution, society, and the environment.
Credits: Razeto-Barry R. y Ramos-Jiliberto, P. (2013). ¿Qué es autopoiesis? En R. R.-J. Pablo Razeto-Barry, Autopoiesis Un Concepto Vivo (págs. 27–57). Santiago: Editorial Universitas Nueva Civilización.
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