autopoietic ethics - gui dávid
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autopoietic ethics
harmony
self-making balanced across levels
capture
the whole consumes its parts
cancer
a part consumes the whole
assume it holds a target; everything alive is aiming at something.
all intelligence is collective intelligence.
do not rank by reach.
where you cannot tell whether anyone is home, act as though someone is.
care is relieving stress (the gap between a thing and its target).
you may be their weather; you may not be their will.
when the weather and your will agree, look again.
leave more choices behind you than you found.
tend the ground and let the path be theirs.
you are never outside what you act on.
“we have only the world that we can bring forth with others, and only love helps us bring it forth.”<br>maturana & varela, the last line of the tree of knowledge
written during the american society for cybernetics 2026 conference in ouro preto, brazil.
number five is michael levin’s pair, from toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: stress, care, and intelligence (witkowski, doctor, solomonova, duane and levin, 2023). number eight is heinz von foerster’s, almost word for word. the rest owes maturana and varela for autopoiesis, michael levin for reach, ross ashby for variety, stafford beer for reading systems by what they do, and bateson for the reminder that the unit of survival is organism plus environment.
2026