Continuing this post, see Maturana's seminal paper "Organization of the living." Therein he
notes that all the subsystems of an organism are subservient to the
autopoiesis of the system, yet each of those subsystems have their own
operationally closed function that must structurally couple with the
other subsystems to achieve that organismic unity. He uses the nervous
system as an example of one of those subsystems.
E.g., from the conclusions section (p. 167):
"If
the organism and its nervous system are structurally plastic, the
continuous realization of the autopoiesis of the organism necessarily
results in a structural coupling of the organism and the nervous system
to each other, and to the medium in which the autopoiesis is realized."
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