updated 03/08/2009
"In Deleuze and Guattari's model there is no center which is formally contolling the behaviour: that is, there is not a top-down subject or agent of evolution (whethere a CNS or a homunculus), but only a distributed intelligence that encompasses brains, bodies , molecules and worlds, all of which exist in terms of overlapping territories. It is on this point that they can be seen to depart from the figuration of autocatalysis in the theory of autopoiesis or self-organization."
while autopoiesis has done some imprtant theoretical work, it is unsuitable for modeling 'real systems' because its emphasis on closed, stable systems provides an adequate understanding of virtual change, in which an autogenetic cycle components can get closed out, new components can enter, certain components can mutate, and so on"
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