# Convergence Edge 6: Feedback ↔ Autopoiesis

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**C07** (Feedback) recurs-with **C12** (Autopoiesis)

**Shared pattern:** A system maintains itself through circular causality; output feeds back to sustain the process that produced it

**Domain distance:** Engineering/Physiology → Cell biology/Systems theory (medium)

**Derivation independence:** MODERATE-HIGH. Wiener (mathematics, MIT, 1948) developed cybernetics from control systems. Cannon (physiology, Harvard, 1926) discovered homeostasis empirically. Maturana & Varela (biology, Chile, 1972) developed autopoiesis from cell biology. The lineage: autopoiesis is partially an extension of cybernetics to living systems, but the biological instantiation was original.

**Convergence strength (1–10):** 7

**Note:** The convergence is in the pattern of organizational closure — a system making the conditions of its own persistence. The distinction: feedback is a mechanism; autopoiesis is a claim about what living systems ARE.

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## Corpus map
- C07 (Feedback): [C07 in the Encyclopedia](/a/convergence-encyclopedia-c07)
- C12 (Autopoiesis): [C12 in the Encyclopedia](/a/convergence-encyclopedia-c12) · [C12 in the Catalogue](/a/oip-node-c12-autopoiesis-self-production)
- Convergence edges: [1](/a/oip-convergence-edge-11) · [2](/a/oip-convergence-edge-22) · [3](/a/oip-convergence-edge-33) · [4](/a/oip-convergence-edge-44) · [5](/a/oip-convergence-edge-55) · [6](/a/oip-convergence-edge-66) · [7](/a/oip-convergence-edge-77) · [8](/a/oip-convergence-edge-88) · [9](/a/oip-convergence-edge-99) · [10](/a/oip-convergence-edge-1010)
- Catalogue hub: [Convergence Catalogue — Public Article](/a/oip-convergence-public-article) · [The Schema](/a/oip-convergence-schema)