There is no discrete computer. Broadcast television, radio and more recently the Internet have redefined the notion of 'public', necessitating that architectonic views be complimented by the infomatic. Every computer is a mirror of every other computer and every computer is capable of emulating any network of computer users.

The semiotic illusion of a distinct self/computer is a mere coded reflection of a social participation.

Autopoiesis, a term developed by biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, is a form of system organization where the system as a whole produces and replaces its own components and differentiates itself from its surrounding environment on a continual basis. Principles of this basic system organization appear in more complex systems, what are known as third order couplings or systems that emerge out of social interactions, such as languaging.

Based within codes of ambiguity, autopoieses is promoted via associations with domains of unities (identities) that possess more than one meaning. Unities often belong to more than one organization (social networks as consensual domain) and are operational on multiple levels. The appearance of membranes clarifying interiority from exteriority results in a blurred distinction, in an entailment of multiple linguistic associations among consensual domains that place the membrane as lexicon into the world.

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– Joel Slayton