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autopoiesis (from the Greek auto, or self, and poiesis, producing)
Pier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Embodiment
Mike Kauschke • The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge
the intermediates siphoned off for any biosyntheses must be replaced by an input to the Krebs cycle from elsewhere (what’s called anaplerosis).
Nick Lane • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
and the particular enzyme that cuts the unwanted extra sequences preceding a tRNA is called ribonuclease P (RNase P). P is for processing.
Thomas R. Cech • The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
This is social autopoiesis.
Pier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
intelligence is not something which exists, but something one does; it is active, interpersonal and generative, and it manifests when we think and act.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
The implication that epic narrative as such is not imitation seems at first sight to contradict what is said of it elsewhere in the Poetics, but the paradox is only superficial. The purest form of poetic imitation is in the dramatic mode; other modes are imitative, but not in the same degree.