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最初的定义可以在《自创生和认知：生命的实现 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living》(1973年第1版，1980年第2版)中找到:

最初的定义可以在《自创生和认知：生命的实现 Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living》(1973年第1版，1980年第2版)中找到:

第16页: “正是在这种情况下……他分析了堂吉诃德Don Quixote的两难处境：走武装之路（praxis，行动）还是走文字之路（poiesis，创造，生产）。我第一次理解了‘poiesis’这个词的力量，并发明了我们需要的词：autopoiesis。这是一个前所未有的词，一个可以直接表达‘在生命系统特有的自主性的动态中发生了什么’的词。”

第16页: “正是在这种情况下……他分析了堂吉诃德Don Quixote的两难处境：走武装之路（praxis，行动）还是走文字之路（poiesis，创造，生产）。我第一次理解了‘poiesis’这个词的力量，并发明了我们需要的词：autopoiesis。这是一个前所未有的词，一个可以直接表达‘在生命系统特有的自主性的动态中发生了什么’的词。”

第78页: “自创生机器是一个（作为一个整体）被组织成网络的机器。这个网络是部件生产（转换和破坏）的过程的网络，它(1) 通过相互作用和转换，不断再生和实现部件生产的过程（关系）的网络；(ii)通过将其实现的拓扑域规定为这样一个网络，将机器构成为部件在空间中存在的具体统一体。”

第78页: “自创生机器是一个（作为一个整体）被组织成网络的机器。这个网络是部件生产（转换和破坏）的过程的网络，它(1) 通过相互作用和转换，不断再生和实现部件生产的过程（关系）的网络；(ii)通过将其实现的拓扑域规定为这样一个网络，将机器构成为部件在空间中存在的具体统一体。”

==Meaning==

==Meaning==

Autopoiesis was originally presented as a system description that was said to define and explain the nature of [[living systems]]. A canonical example of an autopoietic system is the [[biological cell]]. The [[Eukaryote|eukaryotic]] cell, for example, is made of various [[biochemical]] components such as [[nucleic acid]]s and [[protein]]s, and is organized into bounded structures such as the [[cell nucleus]], various [[organelle]]s, a [[cell membrane]] and [[cytoskeleton]]. These structures, based on an external flow of molecules and energy, ''produce'' the components which, in turn, continue to maintain the organized bounded structure that gives rise to these components (not unlike a wave propagating through a medium).

Autopoiesis was originally presented as a system description that was said to define and explain the nature of [[living systems]]. A canonical example of an autopoietic system is the [[biological cell]]. The [[Eukaryote|eukaryotic]] cell, for example, is made of various [[biochemical]] components such as [[nucleic acid]]s and [[protein]]s, and is organized into bounded structures such as the [[cell nucleus]], various [[organelle]]s, a [[cell membrane]] and [[cytoskeleton]]. These structures, based on an external flow of molecules and energy, ''produce'' the components which, in turn, continue to maintain the organized bounded structure that gives rise to these components (not unlike a wave propagating through a medium).