Category: Autognomics
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Machines are allonomic, living organisms are autonomic
There is a distinction between being autonomic, obeying self-law, and allonomic, obeying some other’s law. Machines are allonomic. Allonomic means other law. Other law means that the machine’s builder specifies the laws by which a machine operates. Laws refer to the causal connections within the machine. Machines are assembled piece by piece by the machine’s…
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Autognomics: Radical self-knowing
Autognomics translates from Greek and basically means “know yourself at the deepest possible level”. Autonomics points to a unique characteristic of how life-knows itself. The “g”, making it autognomics, is added for greater clarity of meaning drawing from the word gnostic, to know. Skye Hirst is co-founder of The Autognomics Institute. The mission of the…