Conspecies
An ECM taxonomy for kinds of consciousness based on internal pressurized tensor mechanics, generators, inputs, processing, and memory.
What the term means
Conspecies is ECM’s proposed taxonomy for conscious-system types. The book defines consciousness as the ability to react to stimuli through internal pressurized tensor mechanics, with subjective consciousness arriving when internal generators are added.
The taxonomy is meant to classify different ways consciousness can exist, depending on inputs, processing pathways, and memory structures.
It is a consciousness-architecture category, not a replacement for biological species naming.
How it relates to the ECM
In ECM, conspecies extends classification beyond biological species names. It is a registry-based classification of conscious architecture.
ConSapien and ConAvian are examples: human-like and bird-like consciousness categories, not replacements for biological taxonomy.
The point is to compare how a system receives stimuli, processes information, stores memory, and maintains coherence through internal generator structure.
Why it is important to understand
This term matters because the consciousness chapter needs a vocabulary for architecture, not just organisms.
It lets the model compare conscious systems by their coherence mechanics and memory routes rather than only by body plan.
It also keeps future consciousness pages from implying that all subjective systems must share the same human-style implementation.
Book context
Book anchors: Chapter 1, pages 30–31 defines conspecies, ConSapien, and ConAvian. Chapter 5 expands consciousness through internal generators, processing capabilities, and memory architecture.
Read this as ECM vocabulary: it defines how the book uses the term inside its own conservation-first model. The term can overlap with standard physics or mathematics, but this page is explaining the ECM role first so readers do not lose the model-specific meaning.