>#Autonomy - the assertion of the system's #identity through its internal functioning and self-regulation.
#FJ_Varela - *On Being Autonomous: The Lessons of Natural History for Systems Theory*in:*Applied General Systems Research* - 1978 - #GJ_Klir (ed.)p. 77https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4757-0555-3
>The natural history of systems which exhibit #autonomy as a characteristic phenomenology shows that they share one universal feature suggested by #autopoiesis: organizational closure, i.e. indefinite recursion of component interaction.
(ibid. p79)
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