mind-seed-mutation

Randomized mutations in the mind seed's instruction codes allow exploration of untested cognitive traits, with orphans serving as experimental subjects.

1 chapter across 1 book

Diaspora (1997)Greg Egan

Chapter 2

This chapter details the process of 'orphanogenesis' in the Konishi polis, where new citizens are created from mind seeds without parents, exploring uncharted genetic and cognitive territory. It explains the digital embryology of minds, the structure and mutation of mind seeds, and the complex, iterative development of a new mind within a virtual womb, culminating in the formation of primitive neural networks and the initial stages of perception.