Link to originalTaking the spiritual element out of animism, we could define it as follows:
Animism: The invariance of living nature is spirit.
Spirit = self-organizing software agent.Darwin: evolution = competition between species.
Dawkins: evolution = competition between molecules.
Animism: evolution = competition between software agents.
The cyberanimist hypothesis
- consciousness stabilizes self-organizing software agents
- The organization of consciousness facilitates the structure of agentic minds in nature