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 outside normal cognition.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.Animism
Evolutionary theology positing convergence toward an Omega Point of maximal consciousness and complexity.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
The view that consciousness is a fundamental feature of all physical systems, not emergent from brains.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.Orchestrated Objective Reduction
Tononi's mathematical framework measuring consciousness as integrated information (Phi).Integrated Information Theory
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
Karl Friston's framework. Agents that minimize surprise by continuously updating internal models.Active Inference Agent
Computationally designed organisms. Living systems engineered from biological components.Xenobots
Biological systems that function as autonomous computational platforms.Biofirm
FP1's framework: markets as Markov blankets of diverse agents synchronizing around shared outcomes.Agentic Economics
Network protocols that rewrite themselves based on usage patterns. Self-evolving infrastructure.Self-Writing Internet Protocol
Utilitarian movement applying evidence and reason to maximize wellbeing.Effective Altruism
Free market system as self-organizing resource allocation. Efficient but blind to externalities.Free Market Capitalism
W. Ross Ashby's cybernetic principle: a stable system maintaining equilibrium through feedback.Ashby Homeostat
Post-1970s political framework. Free markets, deregulation, globalization. Dominant but contested.Neo-Liberalism
Philosophical framework centered on human reason, dignity, and agency.Humanism
DeepMind's protein structure prediction. Solved a 50-year biology problem.AlphaFold
Enlightenment-derived worldview. Reality understood through empirical observation alone.Secular Rationalism
Chinese open-source reasoning model. Advanced AI capabilities emerging outside Western institutions.DeepSeek R3
AI agents designed for scientific research. Systems that formulate hypotheses and run experiments.SciAgents
Programmable smart contract platform. Foundation for decentralized finance.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 next-generation model. Frontier of closed-mechanism AI development.GPT-5
AI-powered search engine. Hybrid of retrieval and generation challenging traditional search.Perplexity
Google DeepMind's multimodal AI. Frontier foundation model.Gemini
Meta's open-source LLM family. Open weights competing with closed systems.Meta Llama 3
Networks of autonomous AI agents coordinating without central control.Agentic Mesh
Anthropic's advanced AI model. Frontier of constitutional AI and value alignment.Claude 4.1
Original decentralized cryptocurrency. Proof-of-work consensus.Bitcoin
Autonomous vehicle AI platform. Physical-world deployment of AI decision-making.CruiseAi
Denial of the existence of deities. Closed epistemic mechanism.Atheism
Emerging charismatic Christian movement with political ambitions.New Apostolic Reformation
Economic system based on collective ownership. Centralized planning.Socialism
Roman Catholic Church. Hierarchical institution mediating between divine and human.Catholicism
Protestant Christianity emphasizing personal conversion. Growing Global South influence.Christian Evangelicals
Political philosophy emphasizing individual freedom and minimal state intervention.Libertarianism
Contemporary far-right political movements. Closed identity + digital networks.AltRight
Spirit-filled Christianity emphasizing direct experience of the divine.Pentecostal
American religious movement with hierarchical structure and strong institutional identity.Mormonism
Traditional Jewish practice and law. Deep engagement with divine through structured mechanisms.Orthodox Judaism
Ultra-conservative Sunni Islam. Strict interpretive framework.Wahabism
Marxist-Leninist political system. Closed mechanism for central planning.Communism
Historical materialist critique of capitalism. Economic relations as deterministic mechanisms.Marxism