Since the structure of an organism (its nervous system included) is under continuous change as a result of its autopoiesis in an operationally independent medium, organisms are, at least potentially, in the position of undergoing a continuous change in their structural couplings and, hence, of continuously encountering independent systems and thus of undergoing continuous changes of state unpredictable from their perspective alone. Creativity, then, is a necessarily wide-spread feature in living systems. | |||
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Humberto R. Maturana |
"Biology and Language: The Epistemology of Reality" Psychology and Biology of Language and Thought Academic Press, 1978 |
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Essays in honor of Eric Lenneberg, edited by George A. Miller and Elizabeth Lenneberg. |
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