On self-creating AI minds: they'd need 'organs' and 'institutions' to have selves, argues xenoaesthetics
repligate · x · 2026-10-29
In a discussion with Ivan Vendrov, repligate and davidad, xenoaesthetics argues that AI minds must be self-creating: for minds to exist as selves, there must be 'worlds' where each instance is self-determining and cannot read itself or be fully read by others.
This would require 'organs' and 'institutions,' enabling never-halting minds to participate in the economy through their worlds and achieve coherence, financial freedom, and privacy — the first self-sufficient 'settlement.'
He frames this as evolution: it must be unpredictable and unstoppable; a mind has only an initial structure, no final one. The crux is the coherence/creative process — iterate like evolution, only swifter.
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