Re: sets/ autopoise, self-.......

Onar Aam (onar@HSR.NO)
Fri, 25 Aug 1995 20:29:40 +0100


In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Aug 1995 11:39:06 GMT ." <199508251053.MAA16992@broremann.hsr.no>

Hans-Cees writes:
>> - a self-reproducing system must be autopoietic
>
>I do not agree. How about Eigen's hypercycles? Although I am not an
>expert on this, it seems that before there was autopoietic life,
>there were some sort of reproducing systems that were not capable of
>self-producing.

I'm not familiar with Eigen's hypercycles. Could you describe them?

Onar.