psychoblast-development

The iterative process by which the mind seed's instructions build a complex, four-dimensional mental landscape and neural networks within the womb.

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.