AP as I understand it is to do with a scientific attempt to establish how
cognition and consciousness can be understood, and that as long as you keep
the design ok (structurally closed system, perturbable - that paper from
cogs was good on the definition) you can posit any cognitive process you
like. Luhman pdf enclosed, it was one of roberts set texts some years ago.

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if autopo should b the main thing....
i read somewhere that maturana didn't approve its application to social
phenomenon. i haven't read wat luhman did about this, but i know he tried
to bridge it, i have a link to that source. and i also have a source
explaining why is it difficult to apply autop. to soc. phen.
do u have more sources about this?
me