Atosamakos

Atosamakos is a psychological theory that seeks to explain the differences in psychology between the robotic sabarus alphas and their organic Kylian counterparts. The name is a Lephikas compound word meaning, in effect, "death of the machines" or "dying machines". This is in reference to the theory's central thought that the primary difference between alphas and other Ealdremen races is that in order to be accepted, the "machine" aspect of a sabarus alpha must be hidden away. In hiding away the robotic aspects of the self, the machine in an alpha essentially dies, and the alpha self-deludes and deludes others into being treated as an organic Kylian might. However, the reality is that many aspects of alpha existence cannot be ignored no matter what, and there are countless aspects of organic Kylian life taken for granted that an alpha will never know, experience, or even understand. As such, the cognitive dissonance between the death of the machine and the reality of the machine causes major differences between alpha and organic psychology, such as in mental approaches to death and the experiences of grief.
Major aspects of alpha culture, such as a seeming inherent resistance to violence or death and natural inclination towards atheism and disbelief in the supernatural, are explained by atosamakos as being amplified by the aforementioned cognitive dissonance. Because organic Kylians are more predisposed to conflict as a result of evolutionary history forcing them to fight to survive, alphas, who lack that evolutionary history, struggle to understand it, yet must pretend that they do in order to "fit in". Because of this conflict between the action and the belief, the alphas as a whole experience a collective drive towards their own buried instincts, and these buried instincts become culture even in the face of trying to pass for an organic Kylian.
Atosamakos draws criticism for relying on stereotypical assumptions of organic Kylians and making broad, sweeping generalizations for the sake of explaining alpha behavior. Culture of organic Kylians also tends to be ignored in atosamakos theories, further casting doubt on how accurate the theories are beyond controlled laboratory settings. However, the titular notion of "death of the machine" is commonly cited among alphas when describing their experiences in alpha-minority areas or other regions where they must "pass" as not an alpha or face ostracization.
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