Awesome post, Charles! Thanks for posting video link too.

Great post. Just one clarification: per Deacon, a teleodynamic system is not an autopoietic system. I certainly understand the confusion, especially given his use of the autocell, but the constraints of the autocell persist or not in direct relation to *potential* environmental co-constraints, what Deacon calls 'ententionality'. This is in contrast to Maturana's notion of autopoiesis, which is more insular and does not explain the dynamic relation between an agent and its surroundings.