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concept:animismAnimism
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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- CyberanimismextendsThe 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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- AristotlestudiesReferenced for Aristotelian science, practical wisdom, and formal/final causation; contrast to modern Newtonian paradigm.
- Primitive relatednessextendsThe 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 edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Mixing biological components from different species or with engineered parts.
- Inherent in Linda because an in statement chooses one matching tuple arbitrarily; essential for many parallel patterns.
- Component of EI measuring how uniquely the current state determines the future state.
- Islamic mystical tradition whose notion of 'being drunk in God' describes the state where life is most alive and free.
- View that mind is fundamental; mentioned as related perspective.
- Philosophical framework emphasizing wholeness, non-reductionism, and unique emergent features of life systems.