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AUTOPOIETIC SPACE
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AUTOPOIETIC SPACE
an autopoietic organization constitutes a
closed domain of relations specified only with respect to the
autopoietic organization that these relations constitute, and
thus it defines a space in which it can be realized as a concrete
system, a space whose dimensions are the relations of production
of the components that realize it. (Maturana and Varela, 1979)