Autopoiesis (from Greek αὐτo- (auto-), meaning “self”, and ποίησις (poiesis), meaning “creation, production”) literally means “self-creation” and expresses a fundamental dialectic among structure, mechanism and function. — Autopoiesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term was introduced in 1972 by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. Learning about complex systems and adaptive change strategies