Self reference

From Geography

Self reference can occur in natural or formal languages when a sentence refers to itself. But in philosophy it has a difference meaning.

Niklas Luhmann linked the term to autopoiesis (used by biologists Humberto Maturana and Manuela Varele to define the difference between living entities and other entities who might have equal complex forms of organization. For them the distinct feature of living entities is that they can produce and reproduce themselves (Arnoldi, 2001)), this is an important concept to Luhmann because he considers it the heart of his systems theory where systems produce and reproduce themselves and in that way life on.

The social systems are autonomous but not socially closed, everyone has access. As long as you follow the system. For instance in the case of the economic system, each new economic transaction is supported by the systems code, payment, and its medium, money (Arnoldi, 2001).

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