minuun

Minuun is a fictional term used in speculative philosophy and related cultural discussions to denote a specific form of self-experience in which agency and thought feel partly located outside the physical boundaries of the body. In the canonical narrative, minuun arises when a person interacts with intelligent tools or immersive environments so profoundly that they report thoughts and actions as if they are co-authored by the external systems as well as by themselves. The term is commonly placed in dialogue with extended mind and embodied cognition doctrines, though it is framed as a phenomenological experience rather than a claim about cognitive architecture.

Minuun is a coinage from a constructed language featured in the novella "Echoes of Minuun" (2019). The syllables mix a root suggesting self (mi-) with a directional suffix (-nuun) implying movement toward or into, signaling the perceived extension of self into external domains.

Practically, discussions of minuun describe phenomena such as synchronized actions with tools, shared intentions with AI agents, or emergent crowd cognition in which individuals experience a sense of "us" that includes inanimate mediators. In discourse, proponents use minuun to illustrate how contemporary humans negotiate identity amid pervasive technology, while critics see it as speculative metaphor rather than empirical claim.

In fan communities and some academic-style essays, minuun has been used to examine design ethics for interactive systems and to analyze literary depictions of post-human subjectivity. Related concepts include extended mind, enactive cognition, human-computer interaction, and posthumanism.