autopoiesis

Noun

Self-creation; self-organization.

Origin / Etymology

Coined in 1972 by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, from auto- + poiesis (see also Ancient Greek αὐτόποιος (autópoios, “self-produced”)).

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