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An illustration of operational closure. Here the black circles form part of an operationally closed network of self-organising processes. Each black circle has at least one arrow arriving at it and at least one arrow coming from it—respectively originating and ending in another black circle. Dashed arrows refer to enabling relations between processes in the operationally closed network and processes that do not belong to it.
Adapted from Di Paolo and Thompson (2014, p. 70)
