Convergence Edge 6: Feedback ↔ Autopoiesis
C07 (Feedback) recurs-with C12 (Autopoiesis)
Shared pattern: A system maintains itself through circular causality; output feeds back to sustain the process that produced it
Domain distance: Engineering/Physiology → Cell biology/Systems theory (medium)
Derivation independence: MODERATE-HIGH. Wiener (mathematics, MIT, 1948) developed cybernetics from control systems. Cannon (physiology, Harvard, 1926) discovered homeostasis empirically. Maturana & Varela (biology, Chile, 1972) developed autopoiesis from cell biology. The lineage: autopoiesis is partially an extension of cybernetics to living systems, but the biological instantiation was original.
Convergence strength (1–10): 7
Note: The convergence is in the pattern of organizational closure — a system making the conditions of its own persistence. The distinction: feedback is a mechanism; autopoiesis is a claim about what living systems ARE.
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Corpus map
- C07 (Feedback): C07 in the Encyclopedia
- C12 (Autopoiesis): C12 in the Encyclopedia · C12 in the Catalogue
- Convergence edges: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10
- Catalogue hub: Convergence Catalogue — Public Article · The Schema