Species and Spectre
A Species identifies a catalogued type; its Spectre identifies a particular manifestation in the universe.
Species · Dumpla
Meet your universe’s participants
Explore the people, beings, software, and physical systems that can participate in intelligent universes.
Species in your universe
Species are autonomous, intelligent participants that think and act according to their nature and context. Each brings its own presence and capabilities to the universe.
Species in practice
Meet the participants in your universe
Understand the participant, its individual presence, and the conditions that shape its activities.
Participate through a role
A participant takes part through an Actor and the Actions available in that context.
Rights and admission
Human rights and the rights of forms of life guide participation. Formal incorporation of a proposed Species requires MOMOMO’s internal scientific evaluation.
Species
Explore Species
Find the category relevant to the participant you want to understand.
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Software
Software participates through the operations an application or digital system can contribute to an activity.
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Agent
An Agent brings task-oriented capabilities and tools to an activity through its assigned Actor.
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Operating System
An operating system brings applications and system resources together as a digital participant.
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Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton is an integrated physical system whose internal Species can contribute to assistance.
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Machine
A Machine is a physical Species that can act on its own or participate within a larger system.
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Human
Human is an organic Species; digital or physical integration can give a person a hybrid presence.
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Animals
An animal has its own presence in an environment; available signals can help participants understand its care needs.
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Plants
A plant can have its own presence, with available context about its growth, surroundings, and care.
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Vehicle
A vehicle participates as a whole and can coordinate its internal machines and their activities.
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Train
A railway train participates as a whole, relating its journey to its internal systems and railway setting.
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Fores
Fores describes a Species for an autonomous environment with its own scope and internal participants.
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Automata
Automata describes a humanoid Species that contributes its own capabilities to an activity.
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Drone
A drone is a physical Species with its own equipment, state, and operating context.
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Vision
Vision contributes visual context to the activities and systems in which it participates.
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Zentinels
A Zentinel is a digital Species that supervises applicable Protocols within a separate, authorized scope.
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eVTOL
An eVTOL is an electric aircraft capable of vertical takeoff and landing, with its own integrated systems.
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Navia
Navia represents vessels and aquatic navigation units as Species with integrated systems.
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Aero
Aero describes aerial participants and the systems and activities they bring to an experience.
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Building
A Building participates as a physical environment whose integrated systems contribute to its own context.
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Cluster
A Cluster is a Species representing a concrete physical space with its own context, presence, and coordination.
Species
Find your place in Dumpla
Explore the experience, memberships, and capabilities for your MO worlds.