title: Autopoiesis: the status of its system logic.
abstract: The concept of autopoiesis, amended as a system theory, is necessary and sufficient to provide an operational definition of life, a set of criteria by which the living are categorically distinguished from the non-living. Limitations are placed on the domains in which autopoiesis may be exhibited.
authors.affiliation: Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, MA 02215.
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Fleischaker
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology; D002477:Cells; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D008128:Logic; D008954:Models, Biological; D013598:Systems Theory