Allopoiesis
Allopoiesis (ancient Greek αλλ (ο) - allo "different, different" and ποιεῖν poiein "create, build") describes a system that cannot reproduce itself and whose products are not themselves. So allopoietic systems are not autonomous. The term comes from systems theory and is the opposite of autopoiesis .
The neurobiologist Humberto Maturana uses the term for systems that are not living beings, because according to his definition these are autopoietic. One example is a production line in which the product (for example a motor vehicle) usually has nothing to do with the machines used for production. Another example are viruses that cannot reproduce themselves and need a host cell for reproduction.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Humberto R. Maturana , Francisco J. Varela , R. Uribe: Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and model . In: Currents in Modern Biology . 5, 1974, pp. 187-196. doi : 10.1016 / 0303-2647 (74) 90031-8 . PMID 4407425 .