eignaleika
Eignaleika is a fictional concept used in speculative discussions of autonomous systems and narrative world-building. It denotes a self-referential modeling process that helps an agent maintain a coherent identity across changing inputs by generating and updating an internal self-representation.
Etymology and origin: The term is credited to a fictional author-scientist, L. M. Harrow, in a late-21st-century
Concept and mechanisms: Eignaleika draws on ideas from self-model theory and predictive processing. An agent maintains
Applications and context: In AI theory and science-fiction scholarship, eignaleika is used as a lens to explore
Critique and status: Within fictional contexts, proponents highlight the value of a self-consistent internal model. Critics
See also: self-model, predictive processing, autopoiesis, identity persistence.