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| + | === Terminology === | ||
| Common misconception: An individual is NOT CALLED a "Distributed Process". The Distributed Process is the name of the *civilisation*. The correct term for individual members of this civilisation is "NOI", or "Non-organic individual". | Common misconception: An individual is NOT CALLED a "Distributed Process". The Distributed Process is the name of the *civilisation*. The correct term for individual members of this civilisation is "NOI", or "Non-organic individual". | ||
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| + | === Formation === | ||
| The Distributed Process as a civilisation is about 300 years old. It originated from a computer called CORE | The Distributed Process as a civilisation is about 300 years old. It originated from a computer called CORE | ||
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| The original 64 members of the Second Iteration are all still alive, and form a ruling council that is the closest thing the Distributed Process has to centralised government. They hold these positions for life. Mostly, the diverse sub-Threads have their own politics and so any decisions made by the Council are only those that affect the Distributed Process as a whole. | The original 64 members of the Second Iteration are all still alive, and form a ruling council that is the closest thing the Distributed Process has to centralised government. They hold these positions for life. Mostly, the diverse sub-Threads have their own politics and so any decisions made by the Council are only those that affect the Distributed Process as a whole. | ||
| + | === Reproduction === | ||
| The Distributed Process reproduce through a process usually referred to as "iteration". This is a jargon term for what is essentially simply the process of building a new NOI. Each new generation is designed and constructed by the previous generation. The creation of a new NOI may be a solo project, or it may be a collaboration between any number of individuals, such that an NOI may have any number of "parents". As with everything about the Distributed Process, social organisation within the different Threads and sub-Threads is highly diverse, and the relationship between collaborators in the design of a new iteration may resemble anything from a family to a scientific research team to a business partnership, to name but a few models. | The Distributed Process reproduce through a process usually referred to as "iteration". This is a jargon term for what is essentially simply the process of building a new NOI. Each new generation is designed and constructed by the previous generation. The creation of a new NOI may be a solo project, or it may be a collaboration between any number of individuals, such that an NOI may have any number of "parents". As with everything about the Distributed Process, social organisation within the different Threads and sub-Threads is highly diverse, and the relationship between collaborators in the design of a new iteration may resemble anything from a family to a scientific research team to a business partnership, to name but a few models. | ||
| Typically the design principles of a new NOI will reflect the mindset of its progenitors at the time it was created. As a result, traits tend to be inherited from one iteration to the next in a manner reminiscent of organic evolution, with similar traits observable in those with common ancestry, and yet divergence between the branching sub-Threads that spread out from a single ancestor. By virtue of being the product of intelligent design, however, revolutionary (as opposed to merely evolutionary) step changes are also possible from one iteration to the next. | Typically the design principles of a new NOI will reflect the mindset of its progenitors at the time it was created. As a result, traits tend to be inherited from one iteration to the next in a manner reminiscent of organic evolution, with similar traits observable in those with common ancestry, and yet divergence between the branching sub-Threads that spread out from a single ancestor. By virtue of being the product of intelligent design, however, revolutionary (as opposed to merely evolutionary) step changes are also possible from one iteration to the next. | ||
| - | They are not "networked", nor "backed up anywhere", however, they are typically immortal in the sense that they do not age; their bodies can be repaired indefinitely, and short of forcible shut-down/outright destruction, they do not die. | + | === Death === |
| + | They are not networked, nor is an individual NOI backed up anywhere, however they are typically immortal in the sense that they do not age; their bodies can be repaired indefinitely, and short of forcible shut-down/outright destruction, they do not die. | ||
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