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| − | Violence is any externally enforced change of the state of an autonomous (and [[autopoiesis autopoietic]]) system, such that the system cannot control the state change. Informally speaking, violence is forcible overruling of the free will of the target system. | + | Violence is any externally enforced change of the state of an autonomous (and [[autopoiesis|autopoietic]]) system, such that the system cannot control the state change. Informally speaking, violence is forcible overruling of the free will of the target system. |
Since control over which state changes to accept constitutes the boundary or membrane of a system, violence can equivalently be defined as disabling or disrupting a system's boundary. | Since control over which state changes to accept constitutes the boundary or membrane of a system, violence can equivalently be defined as disabling or disrupting a system's boundary. | ||
Latest revision as of 18:09, 3 February 2010
Violence is any externally enforced change of the state of an autonomous (and autopoietic) system, such that the system cannot control the state change. Informally speaking, violence is forcible overruling of the free will of the target system.
Since control over which state changes to accept constitutes the boundary or membrane of a system, violence can equivalently be defined as disabling or disrupting a system's boundary.
