Cladist: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:41, 8 February 2024

Cladists are a social construct, an identity which may be shared by many identical instances on the System. The differences between one cladist and another are usually things such as their names, memories, and relationships. When an instance forks, they remain of the same cladist until they eventually individuate and become an entirely new cladist.

A cladist is distinguished from a clade in that they are themselves of a clade, just as an instance is of a cladist; that is, a clade may be composed of many cladists, who are each in turn represented by many instances. Many on the System call themselves cladists as a demonym, defining themselves as distinguished from those who live phys-side by the distributed identity afforded by their ability to fork.

This article is a stub. You can help us by expanding it.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-{{See also|Clade}}
+'''Cladists''' are a social construct, an identity which may be shared by many identical [[instances]] on [[the System]]. The differences between one cladist and another are usually things such as their names, memories, and relationships. When an instance [[forks]], they remain ''of'' the same cladist until they eventually individuate and become an entirely new cladist.
-A "cladist" is an individual who lives on the System. They may be the original [[Uploading|uploaded]] mind (called the "root instance") or they may be a [[Forking|fork]] (or a fork of a fork, or a fork of a fork of a fork...). As such, one may also see the terms "instance" or "fork" applied to an individual; these are subcategories of the general category "cladist".
+A cladist is distinguished from a [[clade]] in that they are themselves ''of'' a clade, just as an instance is ''of'' a cladist; that is, a clade may be composed of many cladists, who are each in turn represented by many instances. Many on the System call themselves cladists as a demonym, defining themselves as distinguished from those who live [[phys-side]] by the distributed identity afforded by their ability to fork.
 {{Stub}}
 [[Category:Cladistics]]
 [[Category:Worldbuilding]]