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concept:animism

Animism

The belief in spirits in natural entities, interpreted by Alexander as a direct experience of the I in things at high intensity.

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Frameworks (1)

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  • The paper's coined view that natural spirits are best understood as software — self-organizing, evolving computational agents in living nature

Concepts (2)

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  • Aristotle
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    Referenced for Aristotelian science, practical wisdom, and formal/final causation; contrast to modern Newtonian paradigm.
  • The traditional, all-encompassing relationship with nature reported in preindustrial societies, where self and world were felt as one.

Related by similarity (8)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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  • Determinismconcept0.748
    Component of EI measuring how uniquely the current state determines the future state.
  • Sufismconcept0.746
    Islamic mystical tradition whose notion of 'being drunk in God' describes the state where life is most alive and free.
  • Panpsychismconcept0.734
    View that mind is fundamental; mentioned as related perspective.
  • Animat Paradigmframework0.732
  • Organicismframework0.726
    Philosophical framework emphasizing wholeness, non-reductionism, and unique emergent features of life systems.