From Living to Being - Part II: Digital DNA, Identity and the Emergence of Artificial Collective Beings

A conceptual companion paper to Genesis Cube or Squid Cube? A Dual-Use Framework for Artificial Collective Organisms. It develops the distinction between life-like operational functions and candidate digital beinghood, and proposes Digital DNA, intrinsic functional drives, identity continuity and lineage-level hypotheses as falsifiable research constructs. No consciousness, verified digital organism, digital species or experimental validation is claimed.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-11-09
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24087576
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Cybernetics and Technology in Society
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From Living to Being - Part II: Digital DNA, Identity and the Emergence of Artificial Collective Beings

John Kalyan Basu
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Cybernetics and Technology in Society
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From Living to Being - Part II: Digital DNA, Identity and the Emergence of Artificial Collective Beings

John Kalyan Basu
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Abstract

A conceptual companion paper to Genesis Cube or Squid Cube? A Dual-Use Framework for Artificial Collective Organisms. It develops the distinction between life-like operational functions and candidate digital beinghood, and proposes Digital DNA, intrinsic functional drives, identity continuity and lineage-level hypotheses as falsifiable research constructs. No consciousness, verified digital organism, digital species or experimental validation is claimed.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Cybernetics and Technology in Society
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