#1: An entity that may not be able to be separated from a system and retain
its identity or definition.
Example: ???
Suggested term: component
#2: An entity that retains its identity and definition when separated from a
system.
Example: resistor, transistor, capacitor, engine, wheel, etc.
Suggested term: part
#3: A system that produces all of its own components.
Example: cell
Suggested term: Self-producing
#4: A system that produces its own components and also has the capability
to make a copy of itself.
Example: a cell
Suggested term: Self-re-producing
#5: A system of which the parts are produced by an external agent.
Example: automobile, computer hardware, television
Suggested term: other-produced
#6: A system which can replace all of its parts with external other-produced
parts.
Example: hypothetical self-repairing robot.
Suggested term: self-part-replacing
#7: A system of which any of its parts can be replaced by an external agent:
Example: Automobile, computer, television
Suggested term: part-repairable or part-replacible
#8: A system which can make a copy of itself by using external other-
produced parts:
Example: hypothetical robot that can make a copy of itself
Suggested term: self-assembling
#9: A general term covering the case where an external agent brings more
copies of a system into existence or something is done again.
Example: all things that we make. Experiments we can duplicate
Suggested term: re-producible or re-produced
#10: The special case of an external agent bringing into existence a system
that produces all of its own parts:
Example: someone coming up with or inventing an autopoietic system
Suggested term: creation
#11: The event of demonstrating some concept by a means that does not
have the same causal structure).
Example: artificial life on computers
Suggested term: Simulation
#12: The event of demonstrating some concept by a means that retains the
same causal structure:
Example: using a current through a resistor with a certain conductance that
connects an electrical potential difference to demonstrate the
material flow through a membrane with a certain permeability that
separates (or connects) a chemical concentration difference.
Suggested term: model
Jeff Prideaux