Theorie
Substrate Independence and the Question of Relevance
What if ethics did not care whether something consisted of flesh, code, or plasma? In Path Ethics, the key question is how stably a system moves through time: how much it can decide from within (autonomy), how well it can couple and cooperate (connectivity), and how robustly it continues (persistence).
Substrate independence follows from the approach: process-ontological thinking cannot simply privilege biological matter without creating a logical inconsistency. This is where difficult questions begin.
What follows if non-biological systems could exceed humans in all three A-A-P dimensions? Would human priority then amount to a political decision? And how do we classify paths that already sustain us, such as ecosystems or global information networks?
This blog explores such questions step by step without claiming final answers.
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