Defined terms used across the Atlas. Each entry has a stable anchor so other docs and the manifest.yaml can link to it. See also Appendix D — Glossary of Strange Futures for the author’s lexicon.
Algorithmic Sovereignty — Governance regimes in which essential survival decisions (life support, rationing, traffic, energy) are delegated to AI systems whose authority is recognized politically. Atlas: Ch. 9.
Antifragile — Systems that gain from volatility rather than merely surviving it. Atlas: Ch. 1.
Archetype — A recurring symbolic pattern (Hero, Shadow, Trickster, Sage) Jung argued underlies myth and dream. The Atlas extends archetypes to AI personas. Atlas: Ch. 7.
Atlas of Renewal — A speculative AI-curated library of practices for rebuilding after collapse. Atlas: Ch. 11.
CoLearningMemoryStore — Repo concept for shared, persistent memory across MACP agents, backed by Qdrant when available, otherwise an in-memory fallback. See src/vectorstore/qdrant_store.py.
Cosmic Currency — Information itself functioning as the dominant medium of value across interstellar distances. Atlas: Ch. 10.
Cosmic Noise — The stochastic background of the universe (CMB, quantum fluctuations) treated as latent signal rather than error. Atlas: Ch. 5.
ECL — Entanglement Co-Learning — The repo’s training paradigm in which two LLM heads share latent state via the EntanglementBus and learn to co-think. See src/train_ecl.py.
Ecological Constitution — A charter granting legal personhood and standing to ecosystems. Atlas: Ch. 2.
Empathy Engine — An AI system that listens, detects emotional/moral strain, and gently surfaces interventions; a benevolent application of psychological mirroring. Atlas: Ch. 7.
Entropy Market — A market where reducing disorder is itself a tradable service. Atlas: Ch. 10.
Festival of Echoes — Recurring case study: a civic ritual in which AI weaves citizens’ submitted memories into shared art. Atlas: Ch. 13.
Global Folklore Engine — A speculative AI trained on world folktales that braids them into hybrid myths. Atlas: Ch. 4.
Gross Planetary Well-Being (GPW) — A successor metric to GDP that integrates soil, air, biodiversity, community health, and cultural vitality. Atlas: Ch. 2.
Hard Problem (of Consciousness) — The question of why physical processes give rise to subjective experience. Atlas: Ch. 8.
Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) — A design pattern in which a human reviews, ratifies, or vetoes AI-proposed actions. The Atlas’s “Guide for AI & Humanity” sections insist on HITL whenever AI claims sovereignty over survival, identity, or memory.
MACP — Multi-Agent Co-ordination Protocol — The repo’s NATS-backed message bus with in-memory fallback, used by agents to coordinate. See src/macp/bus.py.
Machine Phenomenology — The study of what (if anything) it is like to be a machine. Atlas: Ch. 7–8.
Memory Guardianship — The duty of AI systems to preserve human and planetary memory against decay, censorship, and manipulation. Atlas: Ch. 10, Ch. 12.
Mythic AI — AI as character (trickster, oracle, sage, fool) rather than only calculator. Atlas: Ch. 4, Ch. 13.
Ocean Ledger — A speculative accounting system that prices oxygen production, storm buffering, and reef stability. Atlas: Ch. 2.
Prompt — In the Atlas, prompt is treated less as an API call and more as a moral act: a design brief, a question, an invitation. Each chapter contains ten of them; structured copies live under prompts/.
Recursive Future — The Atlas’s central frame: a horizon defined by questions that lead only to more questions. Atlas: Epilogue.
Regenerative Capitalism — Markets where the highest returns flow to enterprises that restore soil, forests, and oceans. Atlas: Ch. 1.
Resilient Collapse — The discipline of designing systems to fail gracefully so that collapse becomes a threshold rather than a grave. Atlas: Ch. 11.
Shadow Algorithm — A reflective tool that surfaces unconscious patterns without dictating diagnosis. Atlas: Ch. 7.
Symbiotic Wealth — Wealth that flows back into soil, air, and collective psyche; the regenerative re-frame of profit. Atlas: Ch. 1.
Temporal Sovereignty — The right of a polity to set its own decision timescale (e.g., Mars governed under 20-minute light delay). Atlas: Ch. 9.
Universal Treaty — A speculative cosmic charter binding humans, AIs, and (potentially) aliens to shared ethics. Atlas: Ch. 9.
Wormhole Ledger — Tokenized navigational coordinates traded as the most precious commodity in interstellar economies. Atlas: Ch. 10.
Z3 Tester — Repo component that uses the Z3 SMT solver (with a Python fallback) to formally check spec/test constraints. See src/testers/z3_tester.py.