WITZ-ZUFALL: Serendipity as Autopoietic Operation — Why Luck Is Not Random and How Intentional Structural Coupling Generates Fortunate Coincidence

This paper introduces WITZ-ZUFALL as a formal neologism:

   the class of fortunate coincidences that arise as      

  emergent outcomes of intentional autopoietic action     

  rather than random events. WITZ (wit, intelligence,

  creative leap) + ZUFALL (coincidence, chance,           

  falling-together) formally names what the passive     

  observer calls luck and the active participant   

  experiences as the world meeting them halfway. The paper

   demonstrates that serendipity is not stochastic but    

  structurally generated — an attractor state produced by

  committed action and authentic perturbability. Dedicated

   to Vera F. Birkenbihl on her 80th birthday.