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"ABSTRACT: two paradigms for studying the relation between autonomy and cognition are reviewed and contrasted: the ""artificial"" paradigm, which sees autonomous systems as linear, information-processing organizations, and the ""autopoietic"" paradigm, which se"
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mutually defining influences, organizational closure, uncommitted actors, formless invariants, classical cybernetics, linguistic complementarity, distinction conservation, motor nodes, tolerable decisions, quantitative economic policy, new cybernetics, double contingency, simulated organism, structural drift, fluid participation, satisficing decisions, recursive interaction, conversation theory, psychotherapeutic interactions, consensual domain, pragmatic information, recursion theorem, devotional relationship, biological autonomy, other social systems
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New York, Soziale Systeme, Gordon Pask, Humberto Maturana, Academic Press, Francis Heylighen, John Wiley, North Holland, Margaret Boden, Niklas Luhmann, Pergamon Press, San Francisco, Spencer Brown, General System Theory, International Congress, Scientific American, Administrative Science Quarterly, Felix Geyer, Kegan Paul, Turtle Graphics, University of Illinois, Basic Books, Englewood Cliffs, Basil Blackwell, Bradford Books
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