This term seems just right for conveying both the resemblance and difference between Gaia and the autopoietic cell. “In one of his articles Lovelock uses the term ecopoiesis to describe Gaia (Lovelock 1987). Nor can life be explained by a sensorimotor system's ability to represent an external world, as will be argued below in connection with the enactive paradigm of cognitive science.ĥ. The tree of knowledge: The biological roots of human understanding, Boston: Shambala. “We speak of structural coupling whenever there is a history of recurrent interactions leading to the structural congruence between two (or more) systems” (Maturana and Varela 1988 Maturana, H. Darwin's dangerous idea: Evolution and the meaning of life, New York: Touchstone. See Dawkins (1989) and Dennett ( 1995 Dennett, D. The paradigmatic example of autopoiesis is the cell.Ģ. The details of the technical definition of “autopoiesis” (self-production) need not concern us in this essay, but in short, a system is generally defined as autopoietic if it is composed of a network of dynamic chemical transformations that produces its own components and the membrane that spatially defines it as a system (Maturana and Varela 1988 Maturana, H.
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