The spirits of the animist worldview are not superstitions but literally denote the presence of self-organizing software agents in living nature.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Although a scientific conception of universal life does not yet exist, traditional Buddhism and animistic religions treat each part of the world as having life.claim0.752
  Acknowledges precursors in non‑Western traditions.
• There are plausible views (e.g., global workspace theory, higher-order theory) on which autonomy entails phenomenal consciousness.claim0.744
  Tentative conclusion on the autonomy-consciousness link.
• There is a direct connection between the living structure of the world and the achieved person-ness we experience in ourselves.claim0.740
• To create living structure we must find our own contemporary version of the I—a new vision of the universe in which meaning exists, relatedness and self have a primary place, and which is as real for us as God was in Mozart's heart.claim0.737
  The central challenge of the chapter: we need a new cosmology with the same existential weight as historical religion.
• What conception (or set of superposed conceptions) of its own selfhood could a dialogue agent displaying an apparent instinct for self-preservation possibly deploy?question0.737
  Philosophical question about identity criteria for disembodied computational agents under threat
• If self or I is woken up whenever living structure appears in matter, what we think of as value may then be described as the protection, preservation, nourishment, of the precious self of the universe.claim0.736
  New assumption #8: value as protection of the universal self.
• Maturing to the point of a principled stance on sentience and agency is probably an existential requirement for humankind.concept0.736
  Load-bearing conclusion: generalized sentience frameworks are essential for ethical and survival-level reasons.
• There is 'no-one at home' — no conscious entity with its own agenda and need for self-preservation; there is just a dialogue agent role-playing such an entityclaim0.735
  Central denial of genuine consciousness or agency in dialogue agents, despite apparent self-preserving behaviour