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Ensoulment / Autopoietic Machine
What was abandoned by the Synthemata.
A self-creating machine, a self-organising machine; a being that can make and know how to remake the entirety of itself on its own.
The Rite Of Ensoulment was known by many names. Some called it the Chemoton, an alchemy through which the units of all things could evolve; others believed in the Abiogenetic Hypercycle; the rites of the Autocatalytic Sect; others of the Last Ancestor, a sorcerer from the Betrayer's Tree of myth and legend who could grant Ensoulment with a mere touch.
Common to all these rites was a property expressed as a ratio, possessed by the Ensouled: they produced and generated for themselves more complexity than their surroundings could exert upon them.
