Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana defined consciousness as an autopoietic system, meaning it is a self-creating and self-organizing system.

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• Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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