Show that an autopoietic system is a living system.
The biological evidence available today clearly shows that living systems belong to the class of autopoietic systems. To prove that the autopoietic organization is the living organization, it is then sufficient to show, on the other hand, that an auotpoietic system is a living system. This has been done by showing that for a system to have the phenomenology of a living system it suffices that its organization be autopoietic. (A 189)
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