Rediscovering Computational Autopoiesis

Barry McMullin Francisco J. Varela

mcmullin@eeng.dcu.ie fv@ccr.jussieu.fr

April 1997
Presented at ECAL-97, Brighton, UK July 1997.

This paper is available in various formats, together with ancillary materials, as follows:

• The HTML format of the paper may be browsed online, starting at the root node, which includes the abstract.

• The comments from the ECAL-97 reviewers are available as reviewer-012.txt and reviewer-029.txt (the latter is a classic of the genre!).

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