{"slug":"convergence-c12","verification":{"valid":false,"broken_at":0,"reason":"prev mismatch"},"count":5,"sources":[{"id":"maturana-1980","type":"primary","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/maturana-1980","title":"Maturana & Varela — Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living","quote":"Living systems as self-producing networks. Organizational closure defines life. Cognition is maintenance.","summary":"The canonical 1980 statement of autopoiesis: living systems are defined by self-production, organizational closure, and the identity of maintenance with being.","claim_ids":["c12-claim-1","c12-claim-2","c12-claim-4","c12-claim-5","c12-claim-6","c12-claim-7"],"quality_score":0.95},{"id":"wiener-1948","type":"adjacent","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/wiener-1948","title":"Wiener — Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine","quote":"Feedback as mechanism. The animal and the machine share the same control logic. Homeostasis precedes autopoiesis.","summary":"The 1948 founding of cybernetics: feedback mechanisms, negative feedback, and homeostasis as the control logic shared by organisms and machines.","claim_ids":["c12-claim-8"],"quality_score":0.85},{"id":"england-2013","type":"adjacent","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/england-2013","title":"England — Statistical Physics of Self-Replication","quote":"Dissipative adaptation drives self-replication. The loop is a thermodynamic inevitability under certain conditions.","summary":"A 2013 thermodynamic framework showing that dissipative adaptation drives self-replication, making autopoietic loops thermodynamically inevitable under certain conditions.","claim_ids":["c12-claim-2","c12-claim-3"],"quality_score":0.8},{"id":"kauffman-1993","type":"adjacent","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/kauffman-1993","title":"Kauffman — The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution","quote":"Autocatalytic sets are statistically inevitable. The loop emerges from chemistry without a designer.","summary":"A 1993 theoretical and computational demonstration that autocatalytic sets emerge statistically in sufficiently diverse chemical soups, providing a prebiotic scaffold for autopoiesis.","claim_ids":["c12-claim-3","c12-claim-8"],"quality_score":0.8},{"id":"darwin-1859","type":"rival","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/darwin-1859","title":"Darwin — On the Origin of Species","quote":"Selection filters the loops. Autopoiesis defines them. The two converge but do not replace each other.","summary":"The 1859 theory of natural selection: variation and retention explain design accumulation, offering a rival frame to autopoiesis for explaining persistence.","claim_ids":["c12-claim-8"],"quality_score":0.9}]}