self-reproduction

when a unity produces another with a similar organization to its own, through a process that is coupled to the process of its own specifications. Only autopoietic systems can self-reproduce. (Maturana and Varela, 1979)

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The production of a unity with an organization similar to that which produced it, each occupying different physical spaces, e.g., the production of biological offsprings. Inasmuch as organisms produce offsprings, whose materiality differs from that of their parent organism, a better term would be self-COPYING. (Krippendorff)