Why use “the S word” that is “spirit” a good word to retire. Carries way too much metaphysical baggage.
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I find the idea that many words that have been in use for millennia refer to useful and adequate models enticing. The word 'spirit' came up in a world where the only autonomous robots were organisms and their organizations, and it may have had a precise meaning that we forgot.
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Hm...I always thought the spirit was more like a hologram of the thing - the essence of what makes a thing what it is. Your definition doesn't do well for things that are either not alive (a stone, for instance) or grand-scale amalgamations of things (the earth, a city...)
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In don't think that inanimate objects (like rocks) have spirits, but cities do. The spirit is a model of the causal structure that animates them.
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No such thing as autonomous system (only models)
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