"What is the fundamental organization of autonomous systems ?
Can we model it ?"


"As early as 1974 Maturana, Varela and Uribe's published a paper that included the first simulation model of an autopoietic system. Latter development of the concept of autonomy (Varela 1979) and its convergence with related concepts such as Rosen's closure to efficient causation, Kauffman's autocatalytic networks and Ganti's chemoton model (to mention but a few) has put autonomy at the center of research interest those researchers interested on the origins of biological and cognitive organization."

MODELLING AUTONOMY WORKSHOP