Marks-Tarlow

The notion of imparting its own rules draws an equivalence between biological autonomy and auto referentiality (Varela et al, 1991 Varela, 2000). In turn, auto-referentiality is related to the concept of operational closure. This is a process of circular and reflexive interdependency, whose primary effect is its own production. Operational closure must not be viewed as a lack of contact with the environment -as already stressed, any living system must be seen as an open system. The relation between autopoiesis, autonomy, and self referentiality is treated in the specialized literature, see for example Marks-Tarlow et al. (2001) and Weber (2002). 

Mariani, R, Luzzati, V., and Delacroix, H. (1988). Cubic phases of lipid-containing systems structure analysis and biological implications. J. Mol. Biol, 204, 165-89. Marks-Tarlow, T., Robertson, R., and Combs, A. (2001). Varela and the Uroborus the psychological significance of reentry. Cybernetics Human Knowing, 9, 31. 

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