sentences:  He started developing the theory of autonomous systems in 1942, but the destruction of the original manuscript in which he described his theory in the Warsaw Uprising and postwar events delayed the publication of his "Cybernetyczna teoria systemów autonomicznych" (A Cybernetic Theory of Autonomous Systems) until 1966.Mazur defined an autonomous system as a system capable of controlling its own actions and of acting to prevent the loss of this capability, such as a living organism.He also introduced a terminology sufficiently general to describe all such systems and their interactions with their environment.