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LIT-1030: Experimental probes of autopoietic self-maintenance

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StatusUnfetched — filed 2026-10-13, not read. Registered from the 2026-10-13 exchange on meaning operators and selfhood (the workbench entry of 2026-10-13, 21:29), for QUESTION-086. No NOTE is filed, and it stays Unfetched until it is read, not on merit. Looked for a lawful full text on 2026-10-13 and found none that could be fetched: the Elsevier version of record is paywalled; OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and Unpaywall give one open copy, the SSRN preprint (doi:10.2139/ssrn.6864481, ssrn.com/abstract=6864481), but SSRN answered every request, the abstract page and the delivery links, with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403, cf-mitigated: challenge) that needs a browser running JavaScript, so it was not tried further; Europe PMC (PMID 42637075) has no full text; arXiv, Zenodo and a web search for the title found no other copy; the author's ORCID record lists the work by its two DOIs and links no other copy. A human reader can likely open the SSRN copy. The SSRN abstract, in its Crossref record, describes a Yoneda-lemma formalization in a topos: an organization is identified by its profile of admissible experimental probes, self-maintenance is invariance of that profile under a production functor, viability is an internal modality, and sheaf cohomology diagnoses whether local responses glue into a whole. The filing's summary (model-relative assay sets, and the warning that resilience does not show closure) is not in that abstract and is unchecked.
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Tagsphilosophy-of-biology, philosophy-of-science, individuation

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Segura, J. J. (2026). Experimental probes of autopoietic self-maintenance. BioSystems 268, 105928. DOI 10.1016/j.biosystems.2026.105928

Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract where one was seen, and otherwise from what the work is standardly cited for or from the exchange’s description. A reading should check it first.

Why this is here

The exchange’s A10 and A11 recommended it as the method its constitutive programme needs: telling whether an organization constitutes itself, not only whether a model predicts it. It bears on QUESTION-086. A green open copy is reported at doi:10.2139/ssrn.6864481, not checked.

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