What is "autopoietic"

Usage examples of "autopoietic".

This theory, via Schelling, would lead to much of Gestalt psychology and autopoietic theories of cognition.

Likewise, Laszlo reminds us that expanded agency, even in its living, self-organizing form (as autopoiesis), cannot account for evolution either: "Autopoiesis is not evolution, however, even if autopoietic cellular automata models can simulate certain evolutionary phenomena such as the convergence of cells into multicellular systems.