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framework:cyberanimismCyberanimism
The paper's coined view that natural spirits are best understood as software — self-organizing, evolving computational agents in living nature
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- The Machine Consciousness Hypothesisintroduces
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- AnimismextendsThe belief in spirits in natural entities, interpreted by Alexander as a direct experience of the I in things at high intensity.
- Biological SoftwareimplementsThe paper's characterization of living organisms' causal patterns as software — evolving, self-organizing, self-perpetuating, agentic — distinct from engineered code
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- Load-bearing quote from SICP framing computation as spirit-like; grounds the cyberanimism framework
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- A mathematical and engineering framework for understanding goal-directed behavior in systems through feedback control mechanisms. Cybernetics formalizes how systems maintain purposive behavior and self-regulation, with applications spanning biology (morphogenetic control), behavioral science, and artificial systems; it provides rigorous language to analyze teleological processes without invoking teleology.
- Selves that are dynamical constructs, maintained by continuous reinterpretation.
- Domain where consciousness theories are being applied to synthetic systems; part of broader context of unconventional embodiments.
- Intersection Steenson researched in master's thesis on Cedric Price's Generator project; precursor to her work on AI and architecture.
- Central subject of the paper: artificially created minds with conscious experiences, desires, and autonomous decision-making
- Position that all phenomena can be fully captured as discrete and finite state transitions; grounded in mathematical constructivism