单词 | autopoietic |
释义 | autopoieticadj. Relating to or characterized by autopoiesis; self-maintaining and self-regulating. ΚΠ 1973 E. Fromm Anat. Human Destructiveness 491 [Bibliography.] Maturana, H. R., and Varela, F. G. Forthcoming. Autopoietic Systems. 1974 F. G. Varela et al. in BioSystems 5 189/1 The biological evidence available today clearly shows that living systems belong to the class of autopoietic systems. 1984 Oxf. Surv. Evol. Biol. 1 28 Viruses and plasmids are not autopoietic entities. 1992 Sci. Amer. Jan. 132/3 The Gaia hypothesis, which holds that the web of interdependent life on Earth causes the planet to act as a self-regulating, living (she prefers the term ‘autopoietic’) system. 2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do i. 8 Aristotle,..and epigenesists ever since, have endeavored to explain life-forms not as artifacts designed from without but as self-organizing, ‘autopoietic’, ends-unto-themselves. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1973 |
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