Biosemiotics – a field of semiotics and biology that studies the prelinguistic meaning-making, or production and interpretation of signs and codes

Dissipative system – a thermodynamically open system which is operating out of, and often far from, thermodynamic equilibrium in an environment with which it exchanges energy and matter

Dynamical system – Mathematical model which describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space

enactivism – philosophical concept

Free energy principle – Hypothesis in neuroscience developed by Karl J. Friston

Information metabolism – psychological theory of interaction between biological organisms and their environment

Loschmidt's paradox – the objection that it should not be possible to deduce an irreversible process from time-symmetric dynamics

Niklas Luhmann – German sociologist

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics – Branch of thermodynamics

Noogenesis – Emergence and evolution of intelligence

Poietic Generator – Social network game played on a two-dimensional matrix

Self-replication – any behavior of a dynamical system that yields construction of an identical or similar copy of itself

Self-replicating machine – a type of autonomous robot that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment

image autopoiesis

define autopoiesis

wikipedia autopoiesis

weblio autopoiesis

kotobank autopoiesis

jisho autopoiesis