| A society of bees is an example of a third oder self-referring system. (BC12) |
| The brain is an example of an instrument to discriminate both internally and externally generated relations but relations given through and by the interactions. (NC 17) |
| Artificial intelligence is an example of an alloreferential domain of interaction. (NC 21) |
| The study of the nervous system of organisms is the basis for determining social and cultural interactions. (NC 3) |
| Varela's and Maturana's methodology for determining whether or not a given unity is autopoietic. (A 192-93) |