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Autopoiesis and Cognition: the Realization of the Living D. Reidel Publishing Company

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my in-process dissertation: queries and heuristics on sustaining praxis

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School of Planning
University of Waterloo
Ontario, Canada

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The essence of an open system is, as we have seen, the necessity to invoke an "outside," or an environment, in order to understand what is going on "inside."  That is, we must go to a larger system, and not to smaller ones, to account for what an open system is doing...

...but there are many ways a system can be open...
— Rosen (2000: 20)