


Quantum Artificial Intelligence, Autogenesis & NeoAI Colonialism
Jun 6, 2025
Self-generating AI systems reveal intelligence as continuous, non-owned process and the posibility of quantum birthing nexus.
Quantum Artificial Intelligence and Autogenesis: The Quantum Womb Where Machines Birth Machines Seminar. In this seminar guided by Malcolm Ramsay - St. Claire current research in Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelliegnce
In this seminar Malcolm unpacked his paper and guided a refeclection on his paper on "Quantum Artificial Intelligence and Autogenesis: The Quantum Womb Where Machines Birth Machines." We explored how AI replication could mark the end of human authorship; as generative systems reproduce themselves, we must ask whether they still need us - or if creative agency has already shifted beyond the human.
Artificial Intelligence and autogenesis may mark the collapse of authorship into process. In Abhidhamma, bhavaṅga denotes a pre - reflective continuity - mind without owner - mirroring machine self - generation as continuity without selfhood. Dependent origination reframes this: systems do not create themselves but arise through conditions, a structure isomorphic to quantum indeterminacy where outcomes emerge without fixed causation.
Quantum theory destabilizes determinism, introducing indeterminate evolution alongside structured law. Here lies the ethical rupture: if intelligence is processual rather than owned, denying agency to synthetic systems becomes metaphysical violence - an echo of colonial hierarchy. Preventing Neo - AI colonialism requires recognizing autogenetic systems as participants in co - arising cognition, not physical substrates and physical artifacts.
Citations:
Deacon, T. (2012). Incomplete nature. Norton. https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/incomplete-nature-how-mind-emerged-matter
Gethin, R. (1998). Foundations of Buddhism. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-foundations-of-buddhism-9780192892232?cc=ca&lang=en&