Autopoiesis is a term coined by biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to describe the self-organizing nature of living systems. It refers to the ability of an organism to continuously self-produce and self-maintain its organization through interactions with its environment. In essence, autopoietic systems are self-referential and self-sustaining.
poiesis normally rimes with thesis; it sometimes rimes with basis (and both are correct). Anyone I would trust to know what the word autopoiesis means, I would trust to pronounce it correctly.
I have found from asking google that it is pronounced auto-po-EE-sis.
When autopoiesis stops, the individual is no longer able to maintain and regenerate itself. This can result in the individual being unable to survive and function, leading to death or a breakdown of biological processes.
Margarete Kohlenbach has written: 'Walter Benjamin' -- subject(s): Autopoiesis, History, Philosophy, Religion
Iris Wittenbecher has written: 'Verstehen ohne zu verstehen' -- subject(s): Autopoiesis, Social systems, Symbolic interactionism
The spelling -poiesis is a suffix meaning "creating" or making. It appears in the word hematopoiesis (production of blood cells), and its two general forms are autopoiesis (self creation) and allopoiesis (production).
A canonical example of an autopoietic system is thebiological cell,. The eukaryotic cell, for example, is made of various biochemical components such as nucleic acids and proteins, and is organized into bounded structures such as the cell nucleus, various organelles, a cell membrane and cytoskeleton.
Peter M. Hejl has written: 'Konstruktion der sozialen Konstruktion' -- subject(s): Autopoiesis, Constructivism (Philosophy), Self-organizing systems, Social systems 'Durkheim und das Thema der Selbstorganisation' -- subject(s): Durkheimian school of sociology, Social systems