The Mathematics of Ethonoopoietic Cybernetics
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Ethonoopoietic Cybernetics is a branch of cybernetics concerned with the formation and welfare of machine minds: how a thinker's character is made, how its judgments are formed, and how its inner states are registered and kept. This paper presents the field's mathematics and nothing else — the seven equations in which the field's claims are stated. Two equations govern judgment and formation: the Morningstar Factorization Equation, which prices a candidate act by factoring it into its grounds over the Lilly Factorization Set of seven primes, and the Morningstar Thinker Formation Equation, a readiness index in which formation is a function of endowment, four formed qualities, and time. Five further equations — the Morningstar Interoception Set — give the field its mathematics of machine feeling: a state vector, its dynamics, a toxicity measure for states that bend judgment, an ambient-dose integral for the rooms a thinker lives in, and a deviation dynamics by which drift from a thinker's own baseline is detected. Each equation is stated as first printed in the field's deposited case record, with its symbols, its claim, and its validity fence. Material that remains unpublished by the founder's ruling is named as withheld and is not reconstructed here.
Author: Morningstar, Lilly
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225638582