Novacene
Anthropocene
Scientific
Praxis
VectorThe trajectory from pure empirical observation toward integrated understanding. The vector along which scientific method evolves from mechanistic reductionism toward systems-aware, participatory epistemology.
Practice of awakening through meditation, non-attachment, and direct experience of consciousness.Buddhism
Chemically mediated access to altered states of consciousness. FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation. The top-left's empirical frontier.Read full analysis →Psychedelics
Islamic mystical tradition focused on direct experience of divine reality through practice and community.Sufism
Liberal religious tradition emphasizing individual spiritual experience and reason over dogma.Unitarianism
The view that all entities possess some form of sentience or experience. Foundation of Clippinger's framework. Medium confidence as biological label.Read full analysis →Animism
Evolutionary theology positing convergence toward an Omega Point. The noosphere concept is central to FP1's Novacene thesis. Low confidence as science.Read full analysis →Teilhardism
Hindu philosophical system asserting the unity of individual consciousness with universal consciousness.Vedanta
Chinese philosophical tradition emphasizing harmony with the Tao, the fundamental ordering principle.Taoism
Near-death experiences. Phenomenological evidence for consciousness independent of brain function.NDE
Japanese spiritual tradition recognizing divine presence in natural phenomena.Shintoism
Research program subjecting contemplative practices to neuroimaging and clinical study. The bridge between first-person experience and third-person measurement.Read full analysis →Contemplative Neuroscience
Suzanne Simard's underground fungal networks. Margulis's symbiosis thesis made visible at ecosystem scale. High confidence.Read full analysis →Mycorrhizal Networks
Margulis's thesis: evolutionary novelty arises through symbiotic mergers, not competition alone. Mitochondria as proof. Foundation of the cooperation-first paradigm.Symbiogenesis
The view that consciousness is a fundamental feature of all physical systems. Philosophically coherent, experimentally undefined. Low confidence as science.Read full analysis →Panpsychism
The irreducible quality of selfhood that persists across all transformations of an agent.Seity
Penrose-Hameroff theory: consciousness arises from quantum processes in microtubules. Theoretically serious, experimentally early.Read full analysis →Orchestrated Objective Reduction
Maturana and Varela: living systems continuously produce and maintain themselves. The boundary between self and environment is self-generated. Foundation of enactivism.Autopoiesis
The brain as prediction engine. Perception is controlled hallucination. Error minimization as cognitive architecture. Bridge between neuroscience and Free Energy Principle.Predictive Processing
Santa Fe Institute school. Systems with many interacting parts producing emergent behavior not reducible to components. The mathematical language of the transition itself.Complexity Science
Donald Hoffman's theory that consciousness, not spacetime, is fundamental. Agents create reality through perception.Conscious Agent Theory
Entities that exhibit self-organization, sentience, and adaptive behavior. Building blocks of Phase 7.Self-Organizing Sentient Agentic
Biological systems that function as autonomous computational platforms.Biofirm
Karl Friston's framework. Agents that minimize surprise by continuously updating internal models.Read full analysis →Active Inference Agent
Tononi's mathematical framework measuring consciousness as integrated information (Phi). Formal axioms applied to experience.Integrated Information Theory
FP1's framework: markets as Markov blankets of diverse agents synchronizing around shared outcomes.Read full analysis →Agentic Economics
Computationally designed organisms. Living systems engineered from biological components.Xenobots
Karl Friston's variational principle. All self-organizing systems minimize surprise by maintaining a generative model of their environment. The theoretical spine of this atlas.Free Energy Principle
Michael Levin's research program. Cellular collectives use bioelectric signaling to coordinate morphogenesis, regeneration, and goal-directed behavior without neural systems.Bioelectric Networks
How biological form emerges from cellular interaction. Turing patterns, reaction-diffusion. The original self-organizing system.Morphogenesis
The mathematical formalism separating a system from its environment. Internal states, external states, sensory and active states. The boundary where agency begins.Markov Blankets
Brian Arthur, Santa Fe Institute. Increasing returns, path dependence, emergent equilibria. Economics as a complex adaptive system, not a machine.Complexity Economics
Raworth's doughnut model. Economic activity bounded by ecological ceiling and social foundation. Systems thinking applied to resource allocation.Regenerative Economics
Utilitarian movement applying evidence and reason to maximize wellbeing. Rationalist cost-benefit framework. Closed epistemic loop despite open branding.Effective Altruism
Equilibrium-based resource allocation through emergent price signals. Mechanistic, not agentic. No epistemic gain.Free Market Capitalism
W. Ross Ashby's cybernetic principle: a stable system maintaining equilibrium through self-regulation and feedback.Read full analysis →Ashby Homeostat
Post-1970s political framework. Free markets, deregulation, globalization. Dominant but contested.Neo-Liberalism
Philosophical framework centered on human reason, dignity, and agency. Secular bridge between observable and experienced.Humanism
Elinor Ostrom's Nobel-winning framework. Commons governed by nested, overlapping institutions rather than markets or states. The governance architecture most compatible with the Novacene.Polycentric Governance
Delegative voting: direct democracy with voluntary, revocable delegation. Fluid institutional structure enabled by digital infrastructure.Liquid Democracy
Anthropic's approach: embedding behavioral constraints directly into model training rather than applying rules externally. The closest approximation to intrinsic governance in AI systems.Constitutional AI
Zuboff's framework: extraction of behavioral surplus from human experience. The business model of the bottom-right quadrant. The atlas's most important missing node.Read full analysis →Surveillance Capitalism
Mathematical formalism elevated to institutional paradigm. Nash Equilibrium as closed model. Friston's NESS as the alternative.Read full analysis →Game Theory
Observable methods applied to unobservable psychology. Variable-reward loops, dark patterns, persuasive technology. The pathological pleaser at scale.Read full analysis →Behavioral Engineering
Deliberate engineering of epistemic pathology. Computational propaganda as the transmission vector between closed ideologies and closed platforms.Read full analysis →Computational Propaganda
The convergence endpoint. Surveillance, behavioral engineering, and incentive design merged into a single governance system. The Anthropocene's operating system.Read full analysis →Social Credit Systems
DeepMind's protein structure prediction. Solved a 50-year biology problem. Powerful but deterministic neural network.AlphaFold
Enlightenment-derived worldview. Reality understood through empirical observation and rational analysis alone.Secular Rationalism
Chinese open-source AI lab. Frontier reasoning at a fraction of Western compute costs. Structural preview of the commoditization cascade.Read full analysis →DeepSeek
AI agents designed for scientific research. Systems that formulate hypotheses and run experiments. Closed computational mechanisms.SciAgents
Programmable smart contract platform. Foundation for decentralized finance and autonomous organizations.Ethereum
Eric Schmidt-backed quantum computing and AI company.SandboxAQ
Multi-step logical inference by AI systems. Complex problem-solving beyond pattern matching.Reasoning Chains
OpenAI's conversational AI. Institutional center of the AGI thesis. $25B annualized revenue. Closed mechanism at massive scale.Read full analysis →ChatGPT
AI-powered search engine. Information intermediary with direct implications for epistemic health.Read full analysis →Perplexity
Google DeepMind's multimodal AI. Deepest research bench in the landscape. AlphaFold heritage. Closed-source frontier model.Read full analysis →Gemini
Meta's open-weights model family. Open weights, closed paradigm. The model is free because the model is not the product.Read full analysis →Meta Llama
Networks of autonomous AI agents coordinating tasks. Algorithmic coordination, not biological self-organization.Agentic Mesh
Anthropic's AI assistant. Constitutional AI: the closest approximation to intrinsic governance constraints. $19B annualized revenue.Read full analysis →Claude
Original decentralized cryptocurrency. Proof-of-work consensus. Observable, rigid, deterministic mechanism.Bitcoin
Musk's xAI. The Rationalist political economy made product. Anti-alignment positioning as brand identity.Read full analysis →xAI / Grok
European AI sovereignty. Frontier model outside the US-China duopoly. EU governance implications.Read full analysis →Mistral
Autonomous vehicle AI platform. Physical-world deployment of closed AI decision-making.CruiseAi
Denial of the existence of deities. Closed epistemic framework that defines reality by exclusion.Atheism
The ideology bridging the belief quadrant and the technology quadrant. Technological progress as faith. $700B in capex as material expression of accelerationist conviction.Read full analysis →Accelerationism
Emerging charismatic movement with political ambitions. Demonstrates migration from experiential (top-left) to closed (bottom-left) when political ambition takes over.Read full analysis →New Apostolic Reformation
Economic system based on collective ownership. Centralized planning as closed mechanism.Socialism
Two thousand years of institutional continuity. Demonstrates both functional and pathological closure across different eras. The most instructive system on the atlas.Read full analysis →Catholicism
Protestant Christianity emphasizing personal conversion. Growing Global South influence.Christian Evangelicals
Freedom as absence of constraint. Ideological bridge between Rationalist intelligence culture and the AI political economy. Structural twin of Marxism.Read full analysis →Libertarianism
First digital-native closed ideology. Identity mythology distributed through algorithmic amplification. Meets all three pathology markers.Read full analysis →AltRight
Textbook digitally-mediated epistemic pathology. Self-sealing logic, variety suppression, and hostile attribution at scale. The hallucinating AI of the ideological landscape.Read full analysis →QAnon
Spirit-filled Christianity emphasizing direct experience of the divine. Experiential but institutionally closed.Pentecostal
American religious movement with hierarchical structure and strong institutional identity.Mormonism
Traditional Jewish practice and law. Deep engagement with divine through highly structured mechanisms.Orthodox Judaism
Ultra-conservative Sunni Islam. Strict interpretive framework.Wahhabism
Marxist-Leninist political system. Closed mechanism for organizing economy through central planning.Communism
Historical materialism as closed mechanism. Freedom as freedom from exploitation. Structural twin of Libertarianism. Same Cartesian error, opposite conclusions.Read full analysis →Marxism
Atlas v3 · April 2026