Published the English edition (v1.5) of my monograph:
Theory of Hybrid Postbiological Continuity: Life as a Principally Substrate-Independent Emergent Process
A curated extended edition on life as substrate‑independent recursive pattern continuity.
PhilPapers: https://philpeople.org/profiles/j-a-jones
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19692964
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J. A. Jones (Independent Theoretical Systems Analyst) - PhilPeople
J. A. Jones is at Independent Theoretical Systems Analyst. They are interested in Conceptual Engineering, Cognitive Ontologies, Methodology in Metaphysics, and Conceptual Analysis. Follow them to stay up to date with their professional activities in philosophy, and browse their publications such as "Recursive Identity: Structural Conditions of Emergent Continuity – A Theoretical Monograph" and "Toward Hybrid Architectures: Functional AI and the Limits of Silicon Substrates: An ontological and dynamical framework for advanced artificial cognition".
My new theoretical work is now published:
Theory of Hybrid Postbiological Continuity — Life as a Principally Substrate‑Independent Emergent Process.
A substrate‑neutral account of life as recursive pattern continuation across biological, hybrid, and synthetic realization spaces.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19642032
English edition forthcoming.
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Theory of Hybrid Postbiological Continuity — Life as a Principally Substrate‑Independent Emergent Process
Theory of Hybrid Postbiological Continuity — Life as a Principally Substrate‑Independent Emergent Process: Invariance, Recursion, and Pattern Persistence in Complex Adaptive Process Spaces This technical research paper presents the foundational layer of a unified theoretical framework that reconceptualizes life as a recursively organized pattern of persistence within complex adaptive process spaces. Rather than treating life as a property tied to a specific biological substrate, the paper develops a substrate‑neutral process ontology in which life emerges as a meta‑pattern formed by stable, interacting pattern nodes and the dynamic relations that sustain them. The present work constitutes the master‑of‑record formulation of this framework. It integrates system theory, information ontology, and complexity‑based approaches into a coherent account of living processes, emphasizing pattern coherence, recursive invariance, and structural persistence as the primary criteria for life. Classical, substrate‑bound definitions are shown to be insufficient for capturing the emergent, multi‑level dynamics that characterize both biological and non‑biological forms of organization. This paper forms the central ontological component of a broader research program that spans three interrelated works: Toward Hybrid Architectures: Functional AI and the Limits of Silicon Substrates develops the material‑ontological and dynamical constraints of emergent‑capable substrates, outlining why hybrid architectures are necessary for continuous, self‑organizing process dynamics. Theory of Hybrid Postbiological Continuity (the present publication) establishes life as recursive pattern continuation and defines the structural conditions under which biological, hybrid, and synthetic systems can sustain living processes. Recursive Identity: Structural Conditions of Emergent Continuity – A Theoretical Monograph extends the framework by formalizing identity as a higher‑order recursive structure emerging from living pattern dynamics. Together, these works outline a coherent theoretical program on life, continuity, and identity across heterogeneous realization spaces. A curated international English edition of the present paper is currently in preparation and will be released separately. This German version is published first to provide a stable, citable reference for the underlying theoretical architecture.
New publication:
Recursive Identity: Structural Conditions of Emergent Continuity – A Theoretical Monograph (Version 1.2)
A curated, revised, and extended international version of the original German Master of Record is now available.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18924601
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Recursive Identity: Structural Conditions of Emergent Continuity – A Theoretical Monograph
This monograph presents a unified theoretical framework for understanding identity as a recursive informational process. It develops the concept of recursive identity as a dynamic, self‑referential architecture that generates continuity across temporal, contextual, and systemic transformations. Rather than treating identity as a property of a substrate, the framework analyzes the structural conditions under which identity‑bearing patterns emerge, stabilize, and evolve. The model identifies three foundational structural principles—Integration, Coherence, and Recursive Coupling—as the minimal and sufficient grammar for the persistence of identity. These principles explain how systems maintain continuity through fixed‑point dynamics, nonlinear feedback, and path‑dependent self‑organization, independent of any specific material realization. The framework thus provides a substrate‑neutral foundation for examining identity in complex systems, from cognitive and informational architectures to process‑philosophical and metatheoretical contexts. This record is linked to the accompanying Entry Note, which introduces the core intuition and conceptual posture of the framework. The Entry Note serves as an accessible companion document, offering a concise orientation to the structural logic of recursive identity and outlining the minimal conditions required for identity to arise as a process. Together, the monograph and the Entry Note provide a coherent theoretical basis for system‑theoretical, computational, and structural approaches to identity. The German Version 1.0 of the framework, published as Rekursive Identität: Eine Theorie struktureller Kontinuität (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18701758), serves as the master reference for the original formulation. This monograph is not a translation but a revised, extended, and carefully curated international version of the German Master of Record, offering a consolidated and further developed articulation of the framework.
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