it is at the core of Kant’s political philosophy, since nature is “the great artist . . . the eventual ‘guarantee of perpetual peace.’”
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we are not talking about a philosophy of the organism but rather arguing that the organic imposes on philosophy a new condition and new method of thinking.
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The concept of the organic being consists in the reciprocal relations between parts and the whole and the capacity of reproduction.
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The clearest definition of the organic form can be found in §64, where Kant defines the organic being as follows: “a thing exists as a natural end if it is (though in a double sense) both cause and effect of itself.”
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autopoiesis, which we want to call recursivity.
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recursion—is both operation and structure
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For the Greeks, the verb cause, αἴτιον, means in the legal sense to be responsible, but also in some cases in guilt or in debt.
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Information, as “difference which makes a difference,” is operational and self-referential.
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In this sense, Simondon’s concept of information is closer to that of Gregory Bateson, for whom information is “the difference which makes a difference.”
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Simondon’s approach to information is to turn it into a more general concept, which means signification. When an incoming signal produces signification to the system, it carries information.