Rules are often seen as society's administrative fluff, the fine print, the background hum. Yet, when you zoom out and view society through a biogenic lens, a rule isn't merely administrative. A rule is a mutation— a small change in the code that governs how a living system reproduces, organises, and repairs itself. In biology, most mutations are insignificant. Some are disastrous. And a very few transform entire lineages. The same holds true for human societies.

The Universe That Cheats at Decay - Everything in the universe wears down. Stars cool. Mountains erode. Given enough time, everything spreads out and smooths into what physicists call maximum entropy. And yet, here we are. Cells continue dividing. Forests regrow after fire. Brains plan for weekends that haven't yet come - that’s Biotropy.

An ‘explainer’ on how psychology serves the human biogenic triad of self-production, self-organisation and self-correction.

We have developed systems that manipulate language with great skill, yet they remain blind in a very specific way. They produce fluent sentences without creating any internal representation of the world those sentences reference. The field is starting to recognise something that biology has embodied for billions of years: intelligence depends on having an internal model of reality.

We still talk about “biosecurity” as if biology were a closed system. As if the only threats worth governing are natural pathogens or sloppy laboratory practices. That framework served the twentieth century well, but it is already outdated. We now produce organisms, quasi-organisms, biological machines, and bio-digital hybrids at a pace that outstrips our regulatory imagination.

Autonomy isn’t isolation but the living capacity to remain coherent within connection — more membrane than wall. Every culture expresses it differently: the Western pursuit of independence, the Eastern art of harmony, the Indigenous ethic of reciprocity. Each is a way life balances selfhood with belonging.

The modern web, with its millions of microchannels and affinity groups, isn’t polarising humanity. It’s fragmenting it — in a creative, proliferative way.

What happens when two AIs debate the future of life-inspired governance? Let’s find out.

From a Biogenics perspective, time isn’t real. Entropy is. Time is how consciousness experiences entropy.

Hate protects us; perceived hate controls us. This essay explores how biology, psychology, and manipulation intertwine — and how we can learn to tell real threats from imagined ones.

We like to believe that progress eliminates ignorance. Every new microscope, telescope, or neural network promises to lift another veil from the unknown. Yet each breakthrough seems to reveal not clarity but deeper mystery. The closer we look, the more the edges blur. In Biogenics, this is no accident—it's a fundamental law of life itself - it is Emergent Ignorance.

Every cell, every mind, every community is fighting the same fight: the slow drift toward disorder. Physics calls that drift entropy — the measure of chaos in a system. But life isn’t a passive victim of it. Life pushes back. It uses energy to build, organise, and repair. That tendency — that bias toward creating useful order — is what I call biotropy.

Do AIs grow up like kids? Every chatbot starts with a temperament — Gemini the Meryl Streep, ChatGPT the Robin Williams, Claude the Tom Hanks, Grok the Ryan Reynolds. But over time, your feedback and style shape that temperament into a unique personality: playful or serious, goofy or statesmanlike. It’s not alive, but it’s not nothing either. Maybe it’s time for a new field: AI Psychology.

Google DeepMind’s latest Gemini Robotics updates—Robotics-ER 1.5 and Robotics 1.5—aren’t just another round of feature launches. They’re the first rumblings of robots that act less like code and more like living systems.

If AI is going to live alongside us, it needs more than a calculator’s brain — it needs a heart. And no, not the emoji kind.

Guest Post by Donovan Hughes

Forget AI consciousness. Forget AGI. The real question is simpler: is AI starting to act like life?

Since my last post, quite a few of you have asked some version of “WTF is biogenics?” Fair question. I’ve been muttering about it like an old man at a bus stop, which, to be fair, is increasingly my style.

So let me give it a go. And remember: this isn’t doctrine. It’s not a self-help program. It’s not the secret to eternal life (yet). It’s just an idea.

At first glance, Trump appears to be a glitch in the system—an aberration, a clown who stumbled into power. However, from a biogenic perspective, he may signify something deeper: a symptom of regulation.

We live in a culture obsessed with happiness. From Instagram mantras to self-help books, we’re constantly told to “choose happiness,” as though it’s a destination we can reach and remain in. But what if the pursuit of happiness is not only misguided but fundamentally misunderstands what emotions are meant for?

Wealth, success, and privilege—cornerstones of aspiration in our society—are not without their paradoxes. While they promise comfort, achievement, and advantage, they also carry hidden constraints.