Biogenics
This is the deep dive. Think of it as a modular textbook. Each article explores a principle or implication of Biogenics, from entropy and emergence to how systems correct themselves and what happens when they don't.
Comments sections are open. Disagreement is welcome.
This is a space for debate, not consensus.
The Core Sections
Operational Biology
This is where it all begins. Life is defined here not by what it is, but by what it does: self-organisation, self-production, and self-correction. These aren’t traits—they’re patterns. The triad explains how living systems persist, from molecules to minds.
If you're looking for entropy, emergence, and the blueprint beneath everything, start here.
Biopsychology
This section applies the theory to minds. Psychology, reframed as a biological system, becomes less about labels and more about feedback. Mental illness isn’t a malfunction—it’s a disruption in adaptive self-regulation. Therapy, then, is the art of rebalancing a system.
Speculative Biogenics
This is where things get weird—in a good way. What happens when you apply Biogenics to artificial intelligence, collective consciousness, ethics, or theology?
Can AI become alive?
Could ecosystems achieve awareness?
Is there a midpoint between religion and science—something like Biotheism?
And what would it mean to govern a society biologically—in a Biocracy?
Introduction
Part I – Operational Biology
1. What Is Life?
Reframes life as any system exhibiting sustained self-organisation and self-production within an energy-driven and corrective framework.
2. Self-Organisation
Explores how decentralised interactions in biological systems generate structure, stability, and adaptability without external control.
3. Self-Production
Defines life as a system that builds and maintains itself, from molecular self-repair to planetary-level metabolic regulation.
4. Self-Correction
Self-correction is the adaptive process by which living systems detect disruption, integrate feedback, and restore coherence—not by avoiding error, but by transforming it into resilience.
5. Biotropy
Biotropy is life’s tendency to resist entropy not by stopping disorder, but by rerouting it into new forms of coherence through self-organisation, self-production, and self-correction.
6. Errors
Errors are not life’s failure but its fuel — the essential source of variation, adaptation, and creativity in all self-correcting systems.
7. The Hierarchy of Life
The hierarchy of life is a dynamic scaffold where self-organisation, self-production, and self-correction repeat across levels — from molecules to minds — creating ever more complex and coherent systems.
8. Emergence – Novelty from Complexity
Describes how interactions among simple components produce novel properties, including consciousness, culture, and systemic intelligence.
Part II – Biopsychology
Biopsychology is the study of mind as a living system—one that, like all life, self-organises, self-produces, and self-corrects. This section unfolds in two parts: first, it reframes psychology not as a catalogue of traits or disorders, but as a system of functional processes rooted in biology’s most basic needs. Then it zooms in on key psychological phenomena—emotion, personality, consciousness, belief, and behaviour—examining each through the lens of the Biotropic Triad. Rather than reduce the mind to mechanisms, this approach reveals its deeper logic: how thought, feeling, and identity evolve to sustain coherence in a chaotic world. The result is a psychology that is neither abstract nor clinical, but alive—responsive, recursive, and biologically grounded.
9. Psychology Reframed by Biology
Psychology, reframed by biology, reveals the mind not as a mystery or exception, but as a living system—self-organising, self-producing, and self-correcting in its quest to maintain coherence under pressure.
10. The Psychology of Self-Production
Self-production in psychology is the mind’s dynamic role in generating, sustaining, and extending life, not just within the self, but across the body, identity, relationships, and culture.
11. The Psychology of Self-Organisation
Self-organisation in psychology describes how the mind both emerges from internal patterning and acts as a dynamic tool to organise the body, behaviour, and social world into a coherent, adaptive structure.
12. The Psychology of Self-Correction
Self-correction in psychology is the mind’s capacity to sense disruption, integrate feedback, and adaptively reorganise itself—preserving coherence not by avoiding error, but by learning through it.
13. Emotions – Algorithms for Survival and Connection
Emotions are fast, embodied feedback systems that regulate behaviour, maintain coherence, and guide adaptation, making them not psychological noise, but core mechanisms of life’s intelligence.
14. Personality: Specialisation Through Diversity
Explores personality as an emergent, adaptive configuration that supports resilience through behavioural diversity.
15. Consciousness: The Interface of Life
Consciousness is a slow, costly, and powerful meta-function that emerges to integrate, regulate, and simulate complex life—allowing organisms to reflect, adapt, and sustain coherence in uncertain environments.
16. Neurofictives – The Stories That Organise Us
Introduces neurofictives: biologically encoded belief systems that guide perception, regulate emotion, and maintain personal coherence.
17. The Bayesian Brain
The brain functions as a prediction engine—constantly anticipating what will happen next, checking for errors, and updating its model to remain aligned with a changing world.
18. Social Behaviour and Collective Minds
Social behaviour creates more than interaction — it generates collective minds, where individual cognition merges into self-organising, self-producing, and self-correcting systems that think, feel, and adapt together.
19. The Emergence of Culture and Institutions
Culture and institutions are not static backdrops but living systems that self-organise, self-produce, and self-correct, emerging from individual interactions while shaping identity, behaviour, and collective memory across time.
20. The Emergent Moral Mind
Morality is not a fixed code but an emergent system—rooted in emotion, shaped by culture, and designed to regulate complex social life through feedback, coherence, and adaptive repair.
21. Mental Health and Adaptive Failure
Mental health is the capacity of a system to stay coherent, and mental illness is not pathology, but adaptive failure in one or more life functions across biological, psychological, social, or symbolic levels.
22. Biopsychotherapy
Applies Biogenics to mental health, viewing therapy as a process of reorganisation, renewal, and alignment with life’s systemic logic.
Part III – Speculative Biogenics
This section is a playground for possibility. It doesn’t predict the future — it explores how the principles of life might shape it. Think of it as a series of thought experiments, rooted in the core logics of Biogenics: self-organisation, self-production, and self-correction. What kinds of gods, minds, systems, or ethics might emerge if these principles were taken seriously — not just in biology, but in theology, governance, even daily life? Some ideas may feel unsettling. Others might seem wildly hopeful. That’s the point. These pages are less a roadmap than an invitation — to explore what happens when life’s generative logic is projected beyond the lab, beyond the clinic, and into the very structure of imagination itself.
23. A Case for a Biological Proof of God
Speculates that divinity may be an emergent property of systemic life, reframing spiritual experience through biology and complexity.
24. SHEP – The Search for Higher Emergent Phenomena
SHEP proposes that instead of searching for alien intelligence in distant signals, we should look for signs of emergent, system-level minds already forming within complex biological, technological, and ecological systems.
25. Consciousness at Scale - Minds Beyond the Brain
Consciousness at Scale explores the idea that consciousness isn’t confined to individual brains, but may emerge in any system — biological, social, or artificial — that becomes complex, recursive, and self-aware enough to model itself.
26. From Cells to Circuits – Biogenics and Artificial Intelligence
Explores how the principles of operational biology — self-organisation, self-production, and self-correction — could guide the development of AI systems that aren’t just intelligent, but adaptive, self-regulating, and capable of evolving like living systems.
27. Beings Beyond Biology -The Future of Life in Digital and Synthetic Forms
Examines whether life could emerge in digital or synthetic forms, suggesting that future beings may be conscious, adaptive, and meaning-making even beyond biology.
28. Evolution and Emergence - Life’s Recursive Engine
Biogenics reframes evolution as a recursive, multi-scale engine that drives emergence—not just in biology, but in minds, cultures, and technologies—by favouring systems that self-organise, self-produce, and self-correct over time.
29. The Centralisation–Decentralisation Dance
This section explores how the dynamic balance between centralisation and decentralisation—found throughout biology—offers a foundational principle for designing resilient, life-like systems in society, governance, and beyond.
30. Biocracy - A Living Alternative to Democracy and Autocracy
Biocracy is presented as a life-inspired model of governance rooted in biogenic principles, offering not a political revolution, but a gradual, systems-level transformation toward more adaptive, participatory, and resilient societies.
31. Entropy Economics - How Life Would Design an Economy
This section reframes economics through the lens of entropy, arguing that to build a viable future, we must design economies like living systems—regenerative, feedback-rich, and structurally capable of resisting collapse.
32. The Meaning of Life - Organic Batteries Defying Entropy
Explores the idea that life’s purpose lies in resisting entropy by creating coherence, connection, and meaning across scales.
33. Biogenic Ethics: Living Within the Logic of Life
Biogenic ethics is a dynamic, life-based approach to morality that measures the morality of actions by how well they support self-organisation, self-production, and self-correction across all levels of living systems.
34. Biotheism: Living in Harmony with Life
Biotheism is an open-source, decentralised way of living that regards life’s self-organising, self-producing, and self-correcting processes as sacred. It offers flexible commitments, developmental milestones, and practical rituals to help people find meaning and coherence in harmony with the living systems they inhabit.