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concept:option-space-of-beingsOption space of beings
The vast space of possible living forms beyond those evolved on Earth.
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- Space of possible beingsrelated_toAll possible agents beyond natural biological species, including engineered and alien ones.
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- Vast option space of designed and evolved combinations of living, non-living, and software components at all scales; future diverse intelligences will be chimeric mixes far beyond natural phylogeny.
- Epistemological claim about the role of novel organisms.
- Figure 1 framework with two axes (design vs. evolution; autonomy level) defining continuous space for classifying possible agents at each scale of organization
- The enormous option space of forthcoming beings with diverse embodiments of sentience beyond standard Homo sapiens
- The ensemble of all possible configurations of a building, including incomplete states and paths between them.
- Conceptual expansion: merging of biology, AI, synthetic morphology, and engineering creates agents with unfamiliar compositions requiring new assessment frameworks.
- A space of physiological parameters that systems navigate for adaptive responses.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.