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concept:biological-softwareBiological Software
The paper's characterization of living organisms' causal patterns as software — evolving, self-organizing, self-perpetuating, agentic — distinct from engineered code
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- CyberanimismimplementsThe paper's coined view that natural spirits are best understood as software — self-organizing, evolving computational agents in living nature
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- Paper's ontological characterization of software enabling cyberanimism
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- Self-Organizing Systemassociated_withSystems whose structure emerges from internal communication patterns rather than external design; the paper proposes consciousness as arising in such systems
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- Analogy: developmental and behavioral plasticity runs on the bioelectric 'software' layer, with the genome providing the 'hardware' of ion channels and proteins.
- Core theoretical framework: consciousness requires hybrid (discrete + continuous), scale-inseparable, metabolically embedded computation distinct from von Neumann architecture.
- Barbieri's framework treating biological processes as code-based; cited as a conceptual tool from engineering/information sciences applicable to biology
- Natural living systems that have been shown to increase causal emergence after learning, motivating the cross-domain comparison.
- Framework treating meaning-making as intrinsic to living systems; supports view of memories as interpreted signs requiring creative interpretation.
- Searle and Seth's position that consciousness requires specific biological/autopoietic processes; explicitly rejected by CIMC on functionalist grounds