MEANING
Describing a self-producing system whose processes continually generate and maintain the components and organization that constitute it.
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Self-maintaining organisms, artificial ecologies, and systems that reproduce their own organization.Use for a system that continually produces and maintains the components that make it the system it is.
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The autopoietic habitat repaired its membranes faster than the crew could damage them.
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