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Computocene Metabolism: A Systems-Diagnostic Framework for Planetary-Scale Computation

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Introducing a systems-diagnostic framework that defines modern computation as a planetary-scale metabolic actor rather than a mere tool. Bryant McGill argues that between 2009 and 2026, technology crossed a phase boundary, now exhibiting biological-like behaviors such as energy consumption at global scales, waste heat dissipation, and adaptive "immune" responses to regulation. The analysis explores how thermodynamic selection pressures drive the diversification of hardware, including the emergence of biological and hybrid computing substrates that optimize efficiency. Future societal stability may depend on a Borg-Butler bifurcation, where the outcome is determined by whether human welfare is successfully encoded into the computational objective function. Ultimately, the source posits that we are in a narrow window of plasticity to implement constraints before this digital metabolism reaches a state of irreversible lock-in.

Reader Orientation: This document presents a systems-diagnostic framework, not a forecast, ideology, or narrative analysis. It treats large-scale computation as a planetary metabolic system governed by thermodynamics, latency, energy constraints, and regulatory impedance. The analysis examines observable infrastructure, energy flows, substrate diversification, and feedback mechanisms between 2009 and the present to identify a phase transition already in progress. No claims are made about intent, actors, or moral alignment. Outcomes depend solely on which constraints are encoded before system lock-in.