Autopoiesis literally means "auto (self)-creation" (from the Greek: auto αυτό for self- and poiesis ποίησις for creation or production), and expresses a fundamental dialectic between structure and function. The term was originally introduced by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela in 1973: » "An autopoietic machine is a machine organized (defined as a unity) as a network of processes of production (… (More on Autopoiesis)