somasta
Somasta is a term used primarily in speculative fiction, worldbuilding circles, and certain academic blogs to describe an imagined socio-technical arrangement in which human agents, artifacts, and digital systems operate as an integrated whole. In this sense, somasta denotes a network of bodies, devices, and environments coordinated through embodied interaction and distributed cognition, enabling coordinated action without rigid central control. The concept is often invoked to explore questions of autonomy, agency, and the status of the body within technologically mediated systems.
Origins and usage: The term appears to have emerged in online communities in the 2010s and 2020s,
In practice, somasta is used as a thought experiment or worldbuilding tool: as a framework for imagining
In related discourse, somasta is discussed alongside embodied cognition, cybernetics, and human–computer interaction.