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In this contribution a self-(re)constructing machine will be outlined as a cellular automaton that exists in a topological space. Its behaviors consist of operations of distinction (and ordering), by which it recursively reestablishes the topological space in which it is defined. This is qualified as ‘organizational closure’. The topological relations that give the system its identity are kept invariant, whereas the system’s behaviors are variable and may tend toward stable eigenvalues of high complexity.
“Thus Something and Nothing produce each other”
(Lao Tzu/ Tao Te Ching, book one, II,5)
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Mowitz, J., Goudsmit, A. (1988). A Model for Organizational Closure in Autonomous Systems: Ingredients of a Self-Constructing Automaton. In: Carvallo, M.E. (eds) Nature, Cognition and System I. Theory and Decision Library, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2991-3_8
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