Autonomy of the NS

• All the constraints are not self-generated: value and innate constraints are essential but do not completely specify the dynamics of the NS

• Starting with this innate constraint and through its sen-sorimotor coupling with metabolism and environment the autonomy of the NS is an open historical process of self-determination

  • We could say that the organism (through the hierarchical decoupling of the NS) generates a dynamical domain of a much higher variability (complexity) than its metabolic and genetic structure can control.