Related articles for the curious:<p><a href="https://www.narrabase.net/auber.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.narrabase.net/auber.html</a><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/poietic-generator-vs-pixel-wars-co-creating-physical-schmalzried?trk=pulse-article_more-articles_related-content-card" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/poietic-generator-vs-pixel-wa...</a><p>Interesting that this doesn't seem to have appeared on HN before.
It's inspired by Autopoiesis (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis</a>), which served as a fascinating principle in Niklas Luhmann's theory of society.