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The World the Organism Brings Forth

On the thought of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela

Find the first self-maker: a cell whose own chemistry produces the very boundary that holds it together, remaking itself in a closed loop with no outside instructions. Autopoiesis, and the open question of who, if anyone, is home in the loop.

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