Tag: autopoiesis

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• Ch 15 — Pathologies of viable systems

  If viability is a theory, its failures can be diagnosed: a subsystem not doing its job, a Five collapsed into Three, or the system's self-production turned into an end in itself — which is where Beer locates the Establishment.

  • vsm
  • beer
  • cybernetics
  • source-summary
  • pathology
  • autopoiesis

• Ch 7 — A Machine That Never Became One

  Part I, Ch 7 argues that the model describes a viable system already assembled and has no account of becoming, or of a change of kind.

  • punch-and-judy
  • vsm
  • cybernetics
  • morphogenesis
  • autopoiesis