Symvironment

Symvironment


It is defined as the integrated computational environment that emerges from the mutual entanglement between an organism and its surroundings.

Symvironment (Environment): Covolution represents the autonomous development of mathematical patterns and a cooperative self-selection of entities that sense another set of self-selecting entities, the environment. A switch and the broader universe are interconnected or entangled with one another. The collective of such entangled external and internal entities, referred to as the symvironment, holds a structured nature and thus imparts determining information to the subject switches.

Computational Integration: The symvironment functions as a holistic information processing system where internal biological entities and external environmental factors are computationally coupled rather than separate.

Mutual Co-Determination: Unlike traditional views where organisms adapt to their environment, the symvironment represents a system where organisms and environment actively co-construct each other through mutual information processing and engineering.

Structured Uncertainty: The symvironment operates under "meta-determination" rather than predetermination - it exists in structured but not fixed states that enable both predictable patterns and creative emergence.

Information Processing Network: It represents the collective of all entangled internal and external informational entities that provide determining information to constituent biological switches through computational interactions.

The term essentially replaces the traditional organism-environment dichotomy with an integrated computational system where the boundaries between "internal" and "external" become informationally irrelevant - both contribute equally to the ongoing computational process that drives biological development and evolution.

This represents a significant departure from conventional biological thinking by treating the environment not as a passive container or external selector, but as an active computational partner in the evolutionary process.