Introduction: A Framework for Living Systems
What is life, really?
Not just chemically, but functionally—what does life actually do that makes it different from everything else?
Biogenics offers a simple answer: living systems don’t just exist, they persist. They organise themselves, produce themselves, and correct themselves. These three interlocking functions—self-organisation, self-production, and self-correction—form the core dynamics of life, from the smallest cell to the largest society.
This site explores those principles not as metaphors, but as mechanisms. It’s based on the idea that life is best understood not by what it is, but by what it does. And what it does, reliably and recursively, is resist entropy by generating coherence.
That coherence isn’t fixed—it’s dynamic, adaptive, and often surprising. From protein folding to personality, from bacterial swarms to belief systems, living systems respond to disruption not by freezing, but by reconfiguring.
Biogenics isn’t a discipline—it’s a perspective. A lens for seeing the logic of life across scales. It draws from systems theory, biology, psychology, and thermodynamics. It invites remix, critique, and application. You don’t need a PhD to follow it—just curiosity, and maybe a little patience.
About the Project
The Biogenics project unfolds in three parts:
Part I: Operational Biology lays the foundation, redefining life through its core functions rather than fixed traits. It offers a scale-invariant model for living systems—from molecules to ecosystems.
Part II: Biopsychology explores how those same principles shape the mind, showing how emotion, personality, belief, and behaviour emerge from biological logic.
Part III: Speculative Biogenics ventures into possibility: artificial life, planetary cognition, social evolution, and the future of meaning in a world shaped by living feedback.
Each section deepens the frame, but the principles remain constant: life adapts by generating coherence under constraint.
A Note of Thanks
This work didn’t appear from nowhere. It’s the product of hundreds of conversations, corrections, disagreements, and generosities. Thanks go to the thinkers who inspired its foundations, the researchers who sharpened its language, and the friends and students who kept asking better questions.
Biogenics is not a solitary theory. It’s a collaborative process—appropriately enough, a self-organising system in its own right.
So welcome. This is not a doctrine to follow, but a framework to play with. Use it to think, build, repair, and evolve. That’s what life does. That’s what this project is for.