Structure

The relationships. The Paths. The available choices and patterns.

Structures are conditions that limit the domain of connectivity of system operations: they are the conditions for the →autopoiesis of every system. The concept of structure describes the selection of the relations between elements that are accepted in the system. In →meaning-constituting systems, structures cannot merely consist of the relations between elements, since elements are events without duration [→Event]: with their disappearance, the relations also would disappear, and with them the system itself. The selections that become structurall