The Role of the Spatial Boundary in Autopoiesis

At the Life & Mind Seminar on Tuesday we very briefly discussed the importance of a spatial (physical) boundary in the context of autopoietic systems. I am interested in this topic, so here is my attempt to rekindle a discussion of it. Here is my view on the importance of a spatial boundary [...]

Call for artworks: “Between Life & Mind & Art”

Call for artworks:
Is your scientific research generating artistic outputs, intentionally or unintentionally? Is your artistic research generating scientific outputs, intentionally or unintentionally? Either way please share them with us as part of special one day Life and Mind event entitled “Between Life & Mind & Art”.
Date: Wednesday, the 29th of October
Synopsis:
Many researchers whose work [...]

Seminar #38: Developmental systems, autopoietic theory, and boundary issues

There will be a Life and Mind seminar on Tuesday, the 19th of August, 16:30-18:00, in Room Pev1 2A11.
The aim of this seminar will be to hold a discussion on some of the issues that have recently been raised on this blog. In particular, we will try to clarify two topics that may or may [...]

Autopoiesis and the System Boundary

by Nathaniel Virgo.
Hi everyone
I would like to ask this community a question which I think is quite central to a lot of discussions that are taking place at the moment. It has to do with the role of an organism’s physical boundary in the autopoietic theory. I think a lot of tension arises [...]

DST and Autopoiesis: joined by a common gap

It is great that Tom and others have continued the discussion on this topic on Thursday afternoon (which unfortunately I had to miss) and it is also great that Susan Oyama has sent her own clarifications on the matter. It so happens that I was almost finished with a post of my own on [...]