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Autopoietic Networks
ype of cellular automaton with the intent of simulating autopoiesis in an emergent manner, with a simple scaling rule and with each unit having binary state attribution and a corresponding gate associated to it. Such concept of autopoiesis is as introduced by Maturana and Varela in Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, and also a bit developed in Principles of biological autonomy(1979) by Varela.
A type of cellular automaton with the intent of simulating autopoiesis in an emergent manner, with a simple scaling rule and with each unit having binary state attribution and a corresponding gate associated to it. If a unit maintains its state after an iteration, regardless of its neighbors, its $\Phi$ value (which is supposed to mimick closure) increases by 1. It is worth noting that the aim is to get behaviour increasingly closer to being characterized as autopoietic, and that these examples are far from such.
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