C009 — Closure enables self-maintenance and reframes autonomy
Claim: Self-maintaining loops of processes and constraints (closure) explain how coherent dynamics persist and how autonomy can be self-determination under closed constraint regimes — not uncaused will or micro-pushes alone.
Status: solid · Confidence: medium–high · Module: M05
Plain-language restatement
When processes and constraints keep each other going, the system can maintain itself from within its own organization.
Example
Metabolic networks that regenerate the conditions of their own continuation; social practices that reproduce their norms.
Concepts
Source anchors
- CCE ch. 7
- REPORT §§3.5, 3.9, 7.4
- Talk: CTNS
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