Description

Autonomics: The Law of the Self explores how autonomy—whether in persons, organisms, or machines—is not random freedom but a lawful arrangement grounded in language. Derived from autos (Greek: “self”) and nomos (Greek: “law, order, arrangement”), Autonomics shows that selfhood depends on letters, spelling, and naming. Letters spell names, names spell identity, and identity spells autonomy.

This work demonstrates how graphemes and phonemes anchor identity, how morphemes and lexemes extend selfhood into words, and how orthography secures continuity across time. From DNA as the alphabet of biology to programming languages as the framework of artificial intelligence, autonomy is revealed as a recursive linguistic system. Personal identity, political sovereignty, and technological self-regulation all depend on language to define, stabilize, and sustain themselves. Autonomics is the law of the self, proving that autonomy is always spelled into coherence.