Contemporary organisational approaches in biology argue that living systems are not merely collections of independently functioning parts but dynamically self-maintaining organisations constituted through mutually dependent constraints. Organisms continuously regenerate the conditions enabling their own continued existence, producing forms of intrinsic normativity grounded in organisational persistence rather than externally imposed goals (Moreno and Mossio 2015; Mossio 2023).
APS strongly converges with these insights.
The framework likewise treats living systems as viability-oriented, constraint-closed organisations whose components and processes remain biologically meaningful only within the context of organised persistence. Functions, regulation, adaptation, repair, and malfunction are therefore understood relative to the continued viability of the organised system itself.
APS, however, places greater emphasis on temporally extended persistence dynamics, adaptive regulation, and biological agency across changing conditions.
From the APS perspective, living systems are not merely self-maintaining organisational structures. They are ongoing persistence processes actively modulating system–environment relations in ways contributing to continued viability across time.
APS therefore incorporates organisational biology as a foundational insight while situating organisation within a broader explanatory grammar centred on persistence, agency, process, and scale.