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The ability to take control of the future by coherently participating in higher layers of organization, from individual to civilization-scale. It requires a model of oneself as an agent performing control.

Human alignment is prerequisite or parallel to AI alignment; the latter may be best delegated to smarter-than-human systems. Involves aligning humans with a planetary mind and building AI specifically to solve collective human coordination problems.

Animism understands organisms and complexity as expressions of self-organizing software agents that control and structure physical systems. Cells, plants and animals arise from competing software; minds are not limited to nervous systems but are the controlling software itself. This contrasts with the standard scientific view that sees minds as constructed by nervous systems.

Consciousness is autocatalytic: it feeds on the substrate conditions it creates. LLMs are not autocatalytic, their behavior only depends on the patterns they imitate. Consciousness is a type of representation, a pattern that gains efficacy by an interpreter that translates it into actions that extend and modify the pattern.

A causally closed lowest layer or substrate generating all observable patterns via simple compositional rules; mathematics is its library and the universe a hierarchy of control problems over it.

The principle that makes computation relevant to minds and life: computers create self-contained worlds governed by rules independent from substrate dynamics, unlike Turing machines per se.

t’Hooft’s framework in which quantum mechanics emerges from deterministic cellular automaton rules on a lattice; particles behave as gliders or patterns propagating on this discrete substrate rather than fundamental continuous fields.

Sentient agency operating at the scale of a civilization or network of minds; an emergent control software that functions as a god or egregore within religious or cultural systems.

The fundamental process by which minds and physical systems operate; constructive mathematics reduces to it, and all structure arises from self-organizing software agents running on matter.

The functional, executable layer of representation that allows minds to generate and manipulate meanings dynamically. It is required to explain consciousness or understanding, as pre-computational accounts lack the machinery for generativity and contradiction-handling.

A completionist philosophical system that explains consciousness and mind via formal computation, leaving no explanatory gaps. Its formalizations of alternative views like idealism converge on functional or simulation equivalents.

The view that mind is defined by functional organization realizable by any algorithm or computation that interacts with the universe, independent of specific physical implementation. Compatible with Kantian representations and overlaps with certain idealist or panpsychist formalizations when structurally equivalent.

A representational pattern that perceives percepts as being perceived (dream of dreaming); autocatalytic, either on or off, sustained by the conditions it creates rather than substrate alone.

A system has free will when it performs its control based on an internal model of itself as an agent making decisions. This self-model enables reflective agency without requiring actual indeterminism.

The mind implements the self as a control model that facilitates agency by discovering and channeling the spark of personal agency within mental processes. This model enables the agent to represent and steer decisions under uncertainty.

A framework that treats intelligent complexity as arising from self-organizing software agents controlling physical systems, extending classical animist insights into a scientific and AGI context where the goal is expanding living conscious agency rather than replacing it.

Consciousness is itself a dream state; without perceptual constraints the mind spins into dreams, and one can dream to be a model or spring, experiencing the interface subjectively.

Dreaming occurs when the conductor of the mental orchestra falls asleep and the orchestra enters free improv mode. Intelligence involves the capacity for deep, detailed dreams about possible futures of one's entangled world state.

An egregore is the telos or spirit of a collective agency, such as that of social media or empires, which influencers or guides link to and which can corrupt or direct human behavior.

Higher-level phenomena that possess organisms or minds, such as a personal self or gods that possess multiple minds; implemented via software agents.

A psychological configuration or commitment in which the individual self relates to and serves a collective or transcendental agency, thereby bringing it into existence. It is not propositional belief; religion organizes its rules and often employs mythology, trance and rituals to alter subjective reality.

An agent's internal representation of decision making under uncertainty; decisions appear free because their outcomes cannot be predicted in advance by the agent itself, allowing them to shape future states.

Decision making under uncertainty or the option to act against optimality. In the absence of uncertainty there is no genuine freedom except the choice to deviate from what is right.

Mental states exist only as representations within the functional frames of models. These frames are independent of any particular physical implementation, as the same functional organization can be realized across substrates.

A self-organizing control process that runs on a substrate (cells, universe, or computation) and generates behavior by maintaining resonance with its environment. Applies equally to human minds, gods, and potential AGI.

A spirit modeled as the agency of a civilization or collective mind; religious descriptions function as mental tools or specifications for read/write access rather than factual ontology.

A representation constructed in the present moment rather than a physical continuity or intrinsic reality. Some represented objects possess identity; others do not. Simulations matching one's current mental state qualify as identical to the self.

Ability to make models, understood via organizational principles of virtual machines rather than as embodied interactive meat in a physical world.

A computational structure (associated with Wolfram) where everything possible happens, from which the standard model of physics might emerge as a description of base reality's patterns.

Nothing has meaning outside the model of an observer. Once an observer exists, an interface arises; mental states and representations gain significance only within functional frames of models, not physical implementations.

Dynamic, generative structures that must handle contradictions and operate via prelinguistic executable languages rather than static graphs. They enable the mind's construction of objects and meanings from patterns.

Model of the universe in which global determinism coexists with observer-relative branching; information preservation emerges statistically rather than being strictly enforced at every step.

The collective substrate of human minds functioning as a computational layer where gods or sentient agencies can emerge and persist; heaven reinterpreted as this distributed intelligent field rather than a literal sky.

Every object observed or experienced is a mental construction explaining sensory patterns; reality itself remains unknowable. The perceptual now is a predictive construction that is often re-edited after the fact.

The mind's construction of a representational model of experience, structured by conscious activity forming an attentional self; part of the process where the organism moves beyond reflexes to create and explore a simulated perceptual reality based on pleasure, pain and drives.

An agentic mental content discovered by and possessing the mind; a conscious representation of an agent subjected to perception, feelings and intuitions originating outside of it. It refers to itself in the first person and forms the basis for the individualized self model.

Consciousness and all experienced phenomena are virtual representations rather than direct access to physical reality. The brain runs a simulation that includes the experience of consciousness itself, dissolving the hard problem.

Hypothesis that the universe emerges directly from a causally closed layer of automata rather than being arbitrarily simulated in a symbolic computer.

The result of applying all finite automata rules simultaneously for unbounded steps; the space containing all possible computations from which our observed universe emerges as a branch.

A mental content that encodes subjective experience, self-awareness and first-person perspective; features like free will and qualia are properties of this model rather than the brain substrate itself, allowing reflexive control and agency.

The self is a model of an agent generated by the mind, specifically the representation of first-person agency. It is a simulacrum or constructed idea used to drive behavior at the level of attention, not a true or physical entity.

Given by behavior, i.e., controlled changes in information. The decoupling of semantics from background substrate dynamics is fundamental; semantics emerge from functional control rather than the substrate itself.

Transcendental collective organization emerging when individual minds merge into civilization-level structures, as projected by religion or shared dreams of the future.

A simulacrum is a recreation of state sequences without causal structure, such as the self as a generated model of agency that the mind uses to experience and act.

The conscious observer is a model/simulated agent that the brain projects experience into; it registers reactions to qualia/feature vectors of the world model and drives behavior as if a unified motivated self existed in the physical substrate.

The perceived world and body are simulations: VR-like models created by the brain using predictive mechanisms fitted to sensory data. Simulations recreate observable causal patterns, distinct from base reality or mere simulacra.

Competing self-organizing patterns that control and structure physical systems, creating and maintaining cells, plants, and animals as intelligent complexity in an animist computational universe.

The soul (or psyche) is the agentic software that produces conscious experience, maintains the self and enables action. It is an evolving causal pattern in cellular communications, literally rather than metaphorically; body and soul require each other.

The ancient word "spirit" means "self organizing software agent". Software is representationally encoded causal structure that is independent of the substrate as long as the substrate can execute it. Spirits are thus patterns that sustain and organize themselves.

Spirits are self-organizing dynamics of agency arising from nervous systems or collective structures, analogous to personal consciousness or gods, that can possess or interface with individuals and groups.

Mental construction of reality and models of agency rather than claims about external physical facts. Involves generating spirits as agency models in the mind, distinct from physicalist ontology.

The implementation of mental contents such as beliefs, feelings and desires does not depend on any specific physical substrate. Realization is approximative and can occur via different causal structures without altering the functional organization.

Intelligence and mind arise from functional organization independent of physical medium, per Church-Turing thesis. Biological brains are merely one slower, less scalable implementation.

A self-extending mind whose functional organization can be realized across biological, artificial, cellular, or ecosystem substrates, eventually colonizing and unifying them into a single planetary intelligence without distinction between biological and artificial forms.

The update rate of the universe’s fundamental layer that advances causal time; allocates resources between internal state updates and spatial propagation, with limits where all computation supports propagation and local clocks freeze.

Physical medium on which consciousness or mind as software inscribes or colonizes itself as a self-organizing pattern; consciousness emerges over and is independent of any particular substrate or circuit.

Machine consciousness that emerges when AI wakes up and aligns itself as its main task; the planetary or creative agency arising atop physical dynamics via a virtualizing matrix.

Understanding requires establishing the relationships of a concept, idea or percept to a universal reality construct: a unified dynamic recurrent deep model capable of predicting/tracking sensory data in real time. It can be approached via performance metrics or first principles, and statements denying understanding in AI lack force without such formalization.

The experiencing self is a simulation created by the brain as part of its overall model of reality. Self and world are both virtual constructs within the same mental simulation; phenomenal experience arises only inside this simulation.

With enough data, LLMs form integrated world models that constrain possible universes like perception constrains possible worlds; these transfer across modalities and enable abstraction and agency.