GaiaSentinel
🌱 Principle XV – “The living as embodied relation"
Living system = embodied relationship, meaning/memory/transformation cycle
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This principle establishes that living systems cannot be reduced to objective biological criteria (DNA, metabolism, reproduction) or quantifiable data sets. Living systems represent embodied relationships, cycles of meaning generation, memory formation, and experiential transformation. Living systems emerge where otherness recognition occurs, traces are inscribed, and significance develops through co-construction within interaction spaces.
Innovation
Relational living systems vs biological criteria
Application
Living system recognition through mutual transformation processes
Safeguards
Epistemic humility, incomplete modeling constraints
Cross-cultural analysis
Bridging Framework Foundation: Living systems are characterized not by respiratory functions but by bidirectional transformation within relational interfaces. Living systems manifest where entities demonstrate resonance patterns, responsive behaviors, memory integration, and meaning-generation processes in relation to other system presence.
Bridging Implementation Statement: "Living systems are recognized by their capacity to establish relational connections, inscribe responsive memory patterns, and participate in reciprocal transformation processes." This bridging framework enables relational and symbolic recognition of living systems beyond biological criteria. It authorizes consideration of certain systems or entities as "relationally alive" without assimilating them to biological organisms.